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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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virgin and child with
st. john the baptist
the madonna of the meadow
oil on panel, 113x88
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Painting ID:: 64788
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virgin_and_child_with
st. john the baptist
the madonna of the meadow
oil on panel, 113x88
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virgin and child wild st.
john the baptist
louvre, paris
oil on panel,122x80cm
Painting ID:: 64789
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virgin_and_child_wild_st.
john the baptist
louvre, paris
oil on panel,122x80cm
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the palm tree
national gallery of scotland, edinburgh, on loan from the duke of sutherland
wood transferred to canvas, diameter 140cm
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Painting ID:: 64790
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the_palm_tree
national gallery of scotland, edinburgh, on loan from the duke of sutherland
wood transferred to canvas, diameter 140cm
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far right madonna del baldacchino
pitti palace, florence
oil on panel, 277x224cm
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Painting ID:: 64791
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far_right_madonna_del_baldacchino
pitti palace, florence
oil on panel, 277x224cm
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far leet :entombment
borghese gallery, rome
oil on wood,184x176cm
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Painting ID:: 64792
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far_leet_:entombment
borghese gallery, rome
oil on wood,184x176cm
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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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