Upraised Right Hand, with Palm Facing Outward: Study for Saint Peter
Raphael · 1518/20 · Black chalk, heightened with white chalk and lead white, partially oxidized, over stylus underdrawing, on cream laid paper
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About this picture
Upraised Right Hand, with Palm Facing Outward: Study for Saint Peter is a public-domain drawing by Raphael, dated 1518/20. Black chalk, heightened with white chalk and lead white, partially oxidized, over stylus underdrawing, on cream laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Upraised Right Hand, with Palm Facing Outward: Study for Saint Peter” (1518/20). Raphael left few paintings. A drawing or print under his name is often a study, a workshop sheet, or a later print after a picture of his.
About the artist
Raphael, Raffaello Sanzio (1483–1520), was a painter of the High Renaissance. His madonnas and the Vatican rooms are the famous works. Many sheets in print rooms are drawings or later prints after him, not the paintings.
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