Mar 21 2007
Faith in Art
Look familiar? It’s called “The Prophets Hosea and Jonah.” This is one of my favorite pieces, for a number of reasons, but it’s not a work we know much about. It was painted by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael (also know as Raffaello Sanzio, Raffaello Santi, Raffaello da Urbino or Rafael Sanzio da Urbino) around the year 1510. It may have been a sketch to be integrated into works commissioned by Pope Julius II for rooms at his palace at the Vatican.
According to the National Gallery of Art, the work is “pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white and squared for transfer on laid paper.”
The artist was a contemporary of Michelangelo, who painted this work at about the same time.
