This website presents our knowledge and research on this important aspect of the Royal Collection. As of April 2026 it will not be regularly updated and new research on this topic will sit within the main website.

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Saints

Raphael’s paintings of episodes from the lives of Saints

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      Grouped together in these portfolios are prints and photographs after finished works solely depicting saints (both individually and in company), and drawings for those compositions. Examples include the paintings St George and the Dragon (National Gallery of Art, Washington), Saint Cecilia (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna) and Saint Catherine of Alexandria (National Gallery, London). For saints appearing alongside the Madonna and Child in Raphael’s oeuvre, see ‘Holy Families/Madonna and Child’.

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