Raphael
born April 6, 1483, Urbino, Italy
died April 6, 1520, Rome, Italy
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RAFFAELLO SANZIO, master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance.
Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in
the Vatican in Rome. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of
composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human
grandeur. Raphael is one of the most acute of all portraitists, effortlessly cleaving through the external defences of his sitter, yet courteously colluding with whatever image the ego would seek to have portrayed. This duality, looking beneath the surface and yet remaining wholly respectful of the surface, gives an additional layer of meaning to all his portraits. Raphael's life was short, but while he lived he was one of those geniuses who continually evolve and develop. He had an extraordinary capacity (like, though greater than, Picasso's) to respond to every movement in the art world, and to subsume it within his own work. Raphael's greatest paintings seem so effortless that one does not usually connect them with the idea of hard and relentless work. To many he is simply the painter of sweet Madonnas which have become so well known as hardly to be appreciated as paintings any more. |
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| The small Cowper Madonna 1505 | The nymph Galatea 1512-14 | |
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| Madonna dell Granduca 1505 | Maddalena | |
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| St. George Fighting the Dragon 1505 | St. George Fighting the Dragon 1504-06 |
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Sistine Madonna, 1513-14 (Detail) Raphael Buy This Art Print |
The School of Athens, 1510-1511 Raphael Buy This Art Print |
Saint Catherine of Alexandria Raphael Buy This Art Print |
Ansidei Madonna Raphael Buy This Art Print |
Madonna Della Sedia Raphael Buy This Art Print |
The Madonna Di Foligno Raphael Buy This Art Print |
An Allegory (Vision of a Knight) Raphael Buy This Art Print |
The Triumph of Galatea, C.1511 (Detail) Raphael Buy This Art Print |
Cherubino Raphael Buy This Art Print |
Madonna with the Child Jesus Raphael Buy This Art Print |
Justice Raphael Buy This Art Print |
Renaissance Oculus II Raphael Buy This Art Print |
Ora Terza Di Giorno Raphael Buy This Art Print |
Ora Seconda Di Giorno Raphael Buy This Art Print |
Ora Prima Di Giorno Raphael Buy This Art Print |
Ora Quarta Di Giorno Raphael Buy This Art Print |
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