Raffaello, trinità (1505-1508) e santi del perugino (1521), 04,1 ss. mauro, placido e benedetto

Three holy figures are depicted seated side-by-side against a pale blue sky. On the left, St. Maurus in a white habit looks toward St. Placidus, who wears ornate green and gold dalmatic robes, while the bearded St. Benedict sits on the right holding a staff and a book. Their expressions are solemn and contemplative, set within a tiered celestial composition.

St. Benedict is the founder of Western monasticism; his Rule mandated the preservation of texts through scriptoria, which directly facilitated the survival of the classical and natural philosophical traditions into the Renaissance. This specific work represents a unique collaboration where the young Raphael began the upper portion and his teacher, Perugino, completed the lower saints years later.