The Small Cowper Madonna RAPHAEL c. 1505

This painting is titled Small Cowper Madonna because it was the smaller of the two Raphael Madonna paintings owned by the English collector Lord Cowper; Raphael painted it at the approximate age of twenty-two. Stylistically it bears the strong influence of his Umbrian master, Perugino, and also that of his Florentine rivals, Leonardo [the sweeping landscape] and Michelangelo.

The domed building in the right background is thought to be the Franciscan convent of San Bernardino near Raphael's native city of Urbino.

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