The ''Resurrection of Christ'' (1499–1502), also called ''The Kinnaird Resurrection'' (after a former owner of the painting, Lord Kinnaird), is an oil painting on wood by the

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master

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of paintings by Raphael, His work is admired for its cl ...

. The work is one of the earliest known

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s by the artist, executed between 1499 and 1502. It is probably a piece of an unknown

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, though it has been suggested that the painting could be one of the remaining works of the Baronci Altarpiece, Raphael's first recorded commission (seriously damaged by an

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in 1789, fragments of which are today found in museums across

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).Longhi, 1955, pp. 83–87. The painting is now in the São Paulo Museum of Art. The Kinnaird Resurrection is one of the first preserved works of Raphael in which his natural dramatic style of

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was already obvious, as opposed to the gentle poetic style of his master,

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. The extremely

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composition is ruled by a complex ideal

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which interlinks all the elements of the scene and gives it a strange animated

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, transforming the characters in the painting into co-protagonists in a unique "choreography". The painting possesses an esthetic influence from Pinturicchio and

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, though the spatial orchestration of the work, with its tendency to movement, shows Raphael's knowledge of the Florentine artistic milieu of the 16th century.Barone & Marques, 1998, pp. 62–67. The work was acquired by the São Paulo Museum of Art in 1954. Pietro Maria Bardi, former director of the museum, on the recommendation of Mario Modestini, his associate at the Studio D'Arte Palma in Rome, took the responsibility of adding the '' Kinnaird Resurrection'' to the body of works of Raphael, based on the existence of two preparatory studies for the composition, starting a heated debate about its authorship. Nowadays, the reference to Raphael is almost unanimously accepted by experts. It is the only work by that artist currently in the Southern Hemisphere.Camesasca, 1956.

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