This is the case of the famous Madonna of the chair, datable to around 1513, executed in Rome , perhaps the most popular of his Madonnas for the simple immediacy of the composition and its message of warm and affectionate humanity, of maternal love, accentuated by the gaze
intense that the Virgin addresses to the spectator.
To give life to his ideal of beauty, in this case the painter uses the shape of the tondo , to which he skilfully and illusionistically adapts the
scene: the Madonna, in fact, very young and simply dressed, with a band of cloth on her hair and a green shawl on her shoulders, is
He curls up on the figure of the Child, raising his left leg as if to cradle him, thus following the curvature of the table.
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, or Madonna della Seggiola, painted by Raffaello Sanzio between 1513 and 1514, is an oil on panel painting with a circular format with a diameter of 71 cm and is preserved in the Palatine Gallery in the Pitti Palace in Florence.
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