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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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small Cowper Madonna 1505
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The
nymph Galatea 1512-14
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| Madonna
dell Granduca 1505
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Maddalena
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| St.
George Fighting the Dragon 1505
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St.
George Fighting the Dragon 1504-06
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The following Raphael Fine Art Prints are available to buy, framing service is available. Please click on the image for more infomation. |
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