Madonna del Granduca

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Madonna del Granduca
Raphael, 1505
Oil on wood
84 × 55 cm
Palazzo Pitti, Florence

The Madonna del Granduca is a painting by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. It was probably painted in 1505, shortly after Raphael had arrived in Florence. The influence of Leonardo da Vinci, whose works he got to know there, can be seen in the use of sfumato. The painting belonged to Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, from whom it got its name.