基督儿童研究 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	基督儿童研究
品名（英）	Studies of the Christ Child
入馆年号	1997年，1997.75
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)【1483 至 1520】【意大利人】
创作年份	公元 1513 - 公元 1514
创作地区
分类	图画（Drawings）
尺寸	页: 8 5/8 x 6 9/16 英寸 (22 x 16.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	这张由现场模型完成的研究动画可能可以追溯到1513-14年，拉斐尔在罗马的成熟时期，当时他的艺术词汇集中在形式的雕塑纪念性和作为构图装置的灯光的戏剧性效果上。在他辉煌的教皇宫廷生涯中，拉斐尔创作了一些他最有成就的红色和黑色粉笔画，以完成他的众多任务，其中许多是圣母和圣子的画作粉笔的媒介，通过用手指或布摩擦，使各个笔画能够柔和地融合在一起，以获得精致均匀的阴影，这是拉斐尔对色调探索的独特之处。在这里，艺术家对婴儿的酒窝肉进行了令人惊叹的演绎。大都会博物馆的研究是为《圣婴约翰的神圣家族》的构图做准备的，这幅作品主要由拉斐尔的亲密助手绘制（维也纳美术馆和罗马博尔盖塞美术馆）。在这项研究中，拉斐尔的主要关注点之一是探索基督儿童姿势的自然主义运动。在最后的画作中，基督提供了圣像之间的构图联系，因为他站在母亲的腿上，伸手去够跪在左边的男孩圣约翰（Carmen C.Bambach，2006）
介绍（英）	This animated sheet of studies done from a live model may be dated about 1513-14, to Raphael's mature years in Rome, when his artistic vocabulary focused on the sculptural monumentality of form and the dramatic effect of lighting as compositional devices. At this point in his dazzling career at the papal court, Raphael produced some of his most accomplished drawings in red and black chalks to fulfill his numerous commissions, many of them for paintings of the Madonna and Child. The medium of chalk, which enables a soft blending of the individual strokes by rubbing with the fingers or a cloth to achieve delicately uniform shadows, was uniquely suited to Raphael's explorations of tone. Here, the artist gives a breathtaking rendition of the infant's dimpled flesh. The Metropolitan Museum study was preparatory for a composition of the Holy Family with the Infant Saint John, known from two painted versions largely executed by Raphael's close assistants (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum and Rome, Galleria Borghese). In this study, one of Raphael's main concerns was to explore the naturalistic movement of the Christ Child's pose. In the final paintings, Christ provides the compositional link among the holy figures, for he stands on his mother's lap and reaches to the boy Saint John the Baptist, who is meant to be kneeling on the left. (Carmen C. Bambach, 2006)