Madonna dell'Impannata, 1513-1514 (oil on board)

Madonna dell'Impannata, by Raffaello Sanzio, 1513-1514, 16th Century, oil on board, 158 x 125 cm Whole artwork view. The work takes its name from the particular window "impannata", that means covered with cloth, in the background of the room where the scene is set; the Madonna gives the Child to an elderly Elizabeth kneeling, behind which there is also St. Catherine of Alexandria; on the left, almost sitting on the edge of the painting, there is St. John that draws attention of the viewer staring at him; the set of looks and gestures in the middle of the scene generates a circular motion Raffaello Sanzio The Palatine Gallery