Study for the Emperor Constantine Offering the Tiara to Pope Sylvester
Raphael
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
23.2 × 19 cm (9 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
85759
About the Artist
Raphael · 1483–1520
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known simply as Raphael, was born on March 28 or April 6, 1483, in the cultured Duchy of Urbino to the court painter and poet Giovanni Santi and his wife Màgia Ciarla. Orphaned young—his mother died when he was eight and his father when he was eleven—Raphael was raised in Urbino's refined court under the guardianship of his paternal uncle Bartolomeo. He received his ear...