Year: 1516–1520
Movement: High Renaissance
Location: Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City
Known throughout the world as Raphael, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino was an Italian High Renaissance artist. High Renaissance found its peak from 1490–1527, revolving around three primary figures: da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael.
This Jesus painting was commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, who would later become Pope Clement VII. Raphael began work on the painting in 1516; the painting was finished in 1520, the same year of Raphael’s death. There is some speculation that two of Raphael’s students completed a couple of the figures in the painting’s lower right, but there is no conclusive evidence