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Raphael
Italian High Renaissance Painter, 1483-1520
Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone (in Italian Raffaello) (April 6 or March 28, 1483 ?C April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.
Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop, and, despite his early death at thirty-seven, a large body of his work remains, especially in the Vatican, whose frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career, although unfinished at his death. After his early years in Rome, much of his work was designed by him and executed largely by the workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models.
His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (from 1504-1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates.
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Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
mk93
1639
Pen and Brown ink,brush and brown wash,white body colour
6 3/8x8 1/8in
Painting ID:: 34474
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Portrait_of_Baldassare_Castiglione
mk93
1639
Pen and Brown ink,brush and brown wash,white body colour
6 3/8x8 1/8in
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THe School of Athens
mk149
1510
Painting ID:: 39482
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THe_School_of_Athens
mk149
1510
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The Madonna in the Meadow
mk150
dated 1505 r 1506
Poplar
113x88.5cm
Painting ID:: 39608
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The_Madonna_in_the_Meadow
mk150
dated 1505 r 1506
Poplar
113x88.5cm
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The Virgin and Child with the infant Saint John the Baptist
mk156
122X80cm
Musee du Louvre
Paris
Painting ID:: 40274
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The_Virgin_and_Child_with_the_infant_Saint_John_the_Baptist
mk156
122X80cm
Musee du Louvre
Paris
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The Madonna of the Goldfinch
mk156
1506
Oil on panel
107x77.2cm
Painting ID:: 40294
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The_Madonna_of_the_Goldfinch
mk156
1506
Oil on panel
107x77.2cm
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Raphael
Italian High Renaissance Painter, 1483-1520
Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone (in Italian Raffaello) (April 6 or March 28, 1483 ?C April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.
Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop, and, despite his early death at thirty-seven, a large body of his work remains, especially in the Vatican, whose frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career, although unfinished at his death. After his early years in Rome, much of his work was designed by him and executed largely by the workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models.
His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (from 1504-1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates.
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