Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian: [raffaˈɛllo ˈsantsjo da
urˈbiË no]; March 28 or April 6, 1483 â€" April 6, 1520),[a] known as
Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and
visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
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 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of
his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael
Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best
known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della
Segnatura. After his early years in Rome, much of his work was
executed by his 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 (1504â€"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.
urˈbiË no]; March 28 or April 6, 1483 â€" April 6, 1520),[a] known as
Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and
visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
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 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of
his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael
Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best
known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della
Segnatura. After his early years in Rome, much of his work was
executed by his 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 (1504â€"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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