When I first saw this episode of the Gilmore Girls, I was so excited to see that Emily Gilmore had a Raphael cushion that I had to go back and screenshot it.
La belle jardinière
Raphael, 1507
Oil on panel, 122 x 80 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
La belle jardinière, also known as Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, was painted by Raffaelo Sanzio da Urbino, more famously known as Raphael, under commission by the Sienese patrician, Fabrizio Sergardi. Raphael's works depict a soft modelling of forms and figures with a graceful piety, and it is evident that he was influenced by the chiaroscuro techniques of Leonardo. Raphael painted many scenes of the Madonna and Child, but this one is among the most famous.
