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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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Saint Catherine of Alexandria,
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1507, borrows from the pose of Leonardo's Leda
Painting ID:: 60198
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Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1507, borrows from the pose of Leonardo's Leda
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Deposition of Christ,
Deposition of Christ, 1507, drawing from Roman sarcophagi.
Painting ID:: 60200
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Deposition_of_Christ,
Deposition of Christ, 1507, drawing from Roman sarcophagi.
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his only major mythology
Galatea,1512, his only major mythology, for Chigi's villa.
Painting ID:: 60289
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Galatea,1512, his only major mythology, for Chigi's villa.
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The Miraculous Draught of Fishes,
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, 1515, one of the seven remaining Raphael Cartoons for tapestries.
Painting ID:: 60291
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The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, 1515, one of the seven remaining Raphael Cartoons for tapestries.
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Il Spasimo
Il Spasimo 1517, brings a new degree of expressiveness to his art.
Painting ID:: 60292
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Il Spasimo 1517, brings a new degree of expressiveness to his art.
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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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