Vision and the Visionary in Raphael

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Making the Invisible Visible: Raphael and the Development of Early Modern Visionary Imagery

2 The Philosophical Eye: Iconographies of the Visual in the School of Athens

3 Blindness and Enlightenment: Saint Paul and the Idea of the Image in Raphael’s Sistine Tapestries

4 The Real and the Imaginary

5 Raphael’s Transfiguration as Visio-Devotional Program

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“Christian Kleinbub’s Vision and the Visionary in Raphael constitutes a major contribution to the literature on Raphael and, more broadly, on Italian Renaissance painting. It is hoped that others will follow his lead in elucidating the place of vision and the visionary in art of this period.”

—Sheryl E. Reiss, Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation