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Episode 30: Raphael’s Young Woman with a Unicorn

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Sources:

  • Jürg Meyer zur Capellen, Raphael: A Critical Catalogue, 3 vols. (Landshut: Arcos, 2001-2008)
  • Giorgio Vasari, Life of Raphael, trans. and ed. by Rick Scorza and Paul Joannides (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2020)
  • Robert Williams, Raphael and the Redefinition of Art in the Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
  • Christian Kleinbub, The Vision and the Visionary in Raphael (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011)
  • Esther Bell, ed., Sublime Beauty: Raphael’s Lady with a Unicorn (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 2015)
  • Linda Wolk-Simon, “Laura in the Loggia: Raphael’s Lady with a Unicorn,” in Sublime Beauty: Raphael’s Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn, ed. Esther Bell (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 2015), pgs. 11-57.

Extra Recommendations:

Raphael Sanzio, Young Woman with a Unicorn, c. 1504-1506, oil on panel (now on canvas), in the collection of the Galleria Borghese [image credit: Wikipedia]
Young Woman with a Unicorn in 1949, when “she” was midnighting as Saint Catherine of Alexandria [image credit: Wikipedia]
x-ray revealing the dog beneath the unicorn in A Young Woman with a Unicorn (at that point, still a Saint Catherine) [image credit: Wikipedia]
Raphael, School of Athens, c. 1508-1512, fresco, in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican [image credit: Wikipedia]
Self-portrait of Raphael (the gentleman in the black cap looking out) in the School of Athens [image credit: My Modern Met]
“Who’s who?” in the School of Athens [image credit: Aleteia]
Raphael, Stanza di Eliodoro, c. 1512, fresco, in the Vatican [image credit: Wikipedia]
Raphael’s tomb in the Pantheon [image credit: Wikipedia]
Raphael’s sarcophagus [image credit: HipPostcard]
Raphael, Portrait of Maddalena Strozzi (Doni), ca. 1506, oil on panel, in the collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence [image credit: Uffizi Gallery]
Raphael, Complementary portraits of Agnolo Doni (L) and Maddalena Strozzi (R), c. 1506, oil on panel [image credit: Uffizi Gallery]
Meme of Maddalena Strozzi [image credit: Reddit]
Raphael, Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione, c. 1514-1516, oil on canvas, in the collection of the Louvre [image credit: Wikipedia]
In-gallery photograph of A Young Woman with a Unicorn during an exhibition of Damien Hirst’s work (the two “unicorn” skulls in the image) [image credit: L. Sheedy]
In-gallery photograph of A Young Woman with a Unicorn [image credit: L. Sheedy]

Happy Listening!

-Lindsay

Gus after a long day of podcast managerial duties

2 thoughts on “Episode 30: Raphael’s Young Woman with a Unicorn”

  1. Brian Selznick's avatar
    Brian Selznick December 6, 2021 — 9:01 pm

    Finally! I’ve been looking forward to the new episode for a while and it was worth the wait. So glad that Jean challenged you to do an episode on this painting. For an artist/Ninja Turtle you’ve found boring in the past, you’ve certainly made a non-boring episode! Is it a unicorn? Is it a Raphael? Sleuthing! Educated hypotheses! What is reality anyway? Thanks for raising so many good questions. And by the way, thanks for the Kaleidoscope shout out, and congratulations on finishing your dissertation, Dr. Sheedy!

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    1. Lindsay Sheedy's avatar (Post author)
      Lindsay Sheedy December 7, 2021 — 12:17 am

      thanks, friend! The fuzziest of feelings. 🥰

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