Rafael sanzio biography
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Raffaello Sanzio
Raphael, known also as Raffaello Sanzio or for his place of birth, Raffaello Urbino; Sanzio is derived from Santi, his father’s surname, Giovanni Santi ( – ), who was also a painter and poet in Urbino. Raphael’s place as a master of the High Renaissance is mentioned next to Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci; though he is often compared in status to his prominent contemporaries, Andrea del Sarto ( – ), Correggio ( – ) and Titian ( – ). Raphael’s works as a painter and architect, primarily of the Florentine School, influenced a great deal of the Renaissance and beyond.
He trained first in his father’s workshop, but Giorgio Vasari ( – ) mentioned that his father placed Raphael in the workshop of Pietro Perugino ( – ). His first known work was a altarpiece in the Church of San Nicola of Tolentino just outside Perugia and Urbino. His early work is marked by an influence from Paolo Uccello ( – and Luca Signorelli ( – ), but he was profoundly influenced in Florence by
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Raphael Biography In Details
Early life and work
Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone (in Italian Raffaello) (April 6 or March 28, – April 6, ) 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 and, despite his early death at thirty-seven, a large body of his work remains, especially in the Vatican. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, but after his death the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when his 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 ) abso
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Raphael
For centuries Raphael has been recognised as the supreme High Renaissance painter, more versatile than Michelangelo and more prolific than their older contemporary Leonardo. Though he died at 37, Raphael's example as a paragon of classicism dominated the academic tradition of European painting until the midth century.
Raphael (Raffaello Santi) was born in Urbino where his father, Giovanni Santi, was court painter. He almost certainly began his training there and must have known works by Mantegna, Uccello, and Piero della Francesca from an early age. His earliest paintings were also greatly influenced by Perugino. From - when he became an independent mästare - to he worked throughout huvud Italy, particularly Florence, where he became a noted portraitist and painter of Madonnas.
In , at the age of 25, he was called to the court of Pope Julius II to help with the redecoration of the papal apartments. In Rome he evolved as a portraitist, and became one of the greatest of al