{"id":10132,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10131"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","slug":"the-prophet-isaiah-by-painter-raphael-sanzio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/the-prophet-isaiah-by-painter-raphael-sanzio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prophet Isaiah by Painter Raphael Sanzio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Prophet Isaiah by Painter Raphael Sanzio\" alt=\"The Prophet Isaiah by Painter Raphael Sanzio\" src=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/raphael-s-prophet-isaiah-d4caf6dc2abe.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Prophet Isaiah Raphael Sanzio 1511-12, fresco, 250 x 155 cm Sant&#8217;Agostino, Rome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The painter Raphael Sanzio&#8217;s fresco of <em>The Prophet Isaiah<\/em> of 1511-12 in <em>Sant&#8217;Agostino<\/em>, Rome was commissioned by the Head Chancellor of the Papal Court, Johannes Goritz of Luxemburg. This <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10051\">Italian Renaissance<\/a> painting is a testament to the influence on <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10126\">Raphael<\/a> of the painter <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10125\">Michelangelo<\/a> Buonarroti&#8217;s figures on the Sistine Ceiling. The powerful, full-bodied figure of <em>Isaiah<\/em> is convincingly modelled to give the illusion of three-dimensionality by the painter, Raphael. Surrounded by putti figures in the background, <em>Isaiah<\/em> carries a Hebrew scroll with his prophecy foretelling the birth of Christ, and there is a dedicatory inscription to Saint Anne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Prophet Isaiah<\/em> was repainted by Raphael after he saw Michelangelo&#8217;s prophets. Subsequently, Raphael&#8217;s work was retouched by other painters throughout the centuries. Restored in 1960, <em>The Prophet Isaiah<\/em> sits in splendor once again, the pictorial power of the painter Raphael evident and undiminished with time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The painter Raphael Sanzio&#8217;s fresco of The Prophet Isaiah of 1511-12 in Sant&#8217;Agostino, Rome was commissioned by the Head Chancellor of the Papal Court, Johannes Goritz of Luxemburg. This Italian Renaissance painting is a testament to the influence on Raphael of the painter Michelangelo Buonarroti&#8217;s figures on the Sistine Ceiling. The powerful, full-bodied figure of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian-renaissance-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10230,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132\/revisions\/10230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}