The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings, Volume 4: Raphael
National Gallery Catalogues

The National Gallery holds one of the most significant groups of paintings by Raphael (1483–1520) in the world. The first work by the artist to enter the collection, his portrait of Pope Julius II, was acquired with the Angerstein collection at the time of the Gallery’s foundation in 1824. Since that date, a wealth of new information has been amassed about the artist and the ten paintings by him in the Gallery. In 2022, the year of the Credit Suisse Exhibition: Raphael, the National Gallery is undertaking the digital publication of scholarly catalogue entries for its holdings of works by this great Renaissance artist.

These catalogue entries are the first to be produced under a new initiative to publish our catalogues digitally first, giving us greater flexibility to publish individual entries, or small groups of entries, as the opportunity arises. Further entries will be added from time to time.