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0  The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple
0  The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple detail1
0 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio The Fire in the Borgo by oil painting Italy paintings reproduction
0  The Handing over the Keys
0  The Madonna of Foligno
0  The Mass at Bolsena 
0  The Meeting between Leo the Great and Attila
0 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio The Parnassus by oil painting Italy paintings reproduction
0 The Parnassus detail9 
0  The Presentation in the Temple (Oddi altar predella)
0  The School of Athens 
0  The Sibyls
0 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio The Sistine Madonna by oil painting Italy paintings reproduction
0  The Stanza della Segnatura Ceiling
0  The Transfiguration
0  The Transfiguration detail3
0 Theological Virtues
0 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio View of the Stanza della Segnatura by oil painting Italy paintings reproduction
0  View of the Stanza di Eliodoro
0  Vision of the Cross
0  Vision of the Cross detail1
4La Donna Velata
4 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio Angel (fragment of the Baronci Altarpiece) by oil painting Italy paintings reproduction
4  Angel (fragment of the Baronci Altarpiece)2
4  Cardinal Tommaso Inghirami
4  Double Portrait

4  Head of a Woman
4 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio Joanna of Aragon by oil painting Italy paintings reproduction
4  La Disputa detail1
4  La Disputa detail3
4  La Disputa detail5
4  La Disputa detail6
4 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio La Disputa detail7 by oil painting Italy paintings reproduction
4  Lady with a Unicorn
4  Madonna and Child (The Small Cowper Madonna)
4  Madonna and Child c1503
4  Madonna dell-Impannata detail1
4 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio Madonna with the Book (Connestabile Madonna) by oil painting Italy paintings reproduction
4  Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de- Medici and Luigi de- Rossi detail1
4  Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de- Medici and Luigi de- Rossi detail2
4  Portrait of a Cardinal 
4  Portrait of a Man
4 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio Portrait of a Nude Woman (Fornarina) c1518 by oil painting Italy paintings reproduction
4  Portrait of a Woman (La Donna Gravida)
4 Portrait of a Young Woman (La Fornarina) detail1
4  Portrait of Agnolo Doni 
4  Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
4 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio Portrait of Bindo Altoviti by oil painting Italy paintings reproduction
4  Portrait of Cardinal Bibbiena
4  Portrait of Julius II 1511 
4  Portrait of Maddalena Doni 
4  Portrait of Pietro Bembo
4 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio Psyche Offering Venus the Water of Styx by oil painting Italy paintings reproduction

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio
Italian Renaissance painter, frescoist, sculptor, architect, poet & archaeologist
born 6 April 1483 - died 1520
Born in: Urbino (Pesaro e Urbino, Marches, Italy).
Died in: Rome (Lazio, Italy)

Also known as: Rafael de Urbino, Rafaelo, Raffael, Raffael Urbinas, Raffaello, Raffaello da Urbino, Raffaello d'Urbino, Raffaello Sancio d'Urbino, Raphaïl, Raffael Santi, Raffaello Sanzio, Rafael Sanzio de Urbino, Raphael Raffaello Sanzio Sanctius, Raphaeel Santi, Raphael Raffaello Sanzio Sanctius Urbinas.

Student of: Pietro Perugino (c.1445-1523).
Teacher of: Luca Penni (1500-1577), Polidoro da Caravaggio (1497-1543), Giulio Romano (1499?-1546), Giulio Romano, Tommaso di Andrea Vincidor (-1536).
Colleague of: c (1480-1534).
Son of: Giovanni Santi (1430-1494).
Assisted by: Giovanni da Udine (1487-1564), Giovanni Francesco Penni (1496-1528), Antonio da, the younger Sangallo (1484-1546).
Friend of: Bernardino Pinturicchio (c.1454-1513).
Worked with: Pietro di Giacomo Rosselli (1474-1532).
Employee of: Perino del Vaga (1501-1547).
Patronized by: Atalanta di Galeotto Baglioni (-1508).

Italian in full RAFFAELLO SANZIO (b. April 6, 1483, Urbino, Duchy of Urbino [Italy]--d. April 6, 1520, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael Raffaello Sanzio 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. - original oil painting Raphael .

While we may term other works paintings, those of Raphael Raffaello Sanzio are living things; the flesh palpitates, the breath comes and goes, every organ lives, life pulsates everywhere.
-- Vasari, Lives of the Artists

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio (his full name Raffaello Sanzi or Santi), Italian painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael Raffaello Sanzio 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.

Early years at Urbino

Raphael was the son of Giovanni Santi and Magia di Battista Ciarla; his mother died in 1491. His father was, according to the 16th-century artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari, a painter "of no great merit." he was, however, a man of culture who was in constant contact with the advanced artistic ideas current at the court of Urbino. Raphael Raffaello Sanzio gave his son his first instruction in painting, and, before his death in 1494, when he was 11, he had introduced the boy to humanistic philosophy at the court.

Urbino had become a centre of culture during the rule of Duke Federico da Montefeltro, who encouraged the art and attracted the visits of men of outstanding talent, including Donato Bramante, Piero della Francesca, and Leon Battista Alberti, to his court. Although Raphael Raffaello Sanzio would be influenced by major artists in Florence and Rome, Urbino constituted the basis for all his subsequent learning. Furthermore, the cultural vitality of the city probably stimulated the exceptional precociousness of the young artist, who, even at the beginning of the 16th century, when he was scarcely 17 years old, already displayed an extraordinary talent. - Raphael biography and his oil painting art reproductions.

Apprenticeship at Perugia

The date of his arrival in Perugia is not known, but several scholars place it in 1495. The first record of his activity as a painter is found there in a document of Dec. 10, 1500, declaring that the young painter, by then called a "master," was commissioned to help paint an altarpiece to be completed by Sept. 13, 1502. It is clear from this that Raphael Raffaello Sanzio had already given proof of his mastery, so much so that between 1501 and 1503 he received a rather important commission - to paint the Coronation of the Virgin for the Oddi Chapel in the church of San Francesco, Perugia (and now in the Vatican Museum, Rome). The great Umbrian master Pietro Perugino was executing the frescoes in the Collegio del Cambio at Perugia between 1498 and 1500, enabling Raphael Raffaello Sanzio, as a member of his workshop, to acquire extensive professional knowledge.- original oil painting copy Raphael raffaello Sanzio Bio Italy.

In addition to this practical instruction, Perugino's calmly exquisite style also influenced Raphael Raffaello Sanzio. The Giving of the Keys to St Peter, painted in 1481-82 by Perugino for the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican Palace in Rome, inspired his first major work, The Marriage of the Virgin (1504; Brera Gallery, Milan). Perugino's influence is seen in the emphasis on perspectives, in the graded relationships between the figures and the architecture, and in the lyrical sweetness of the figures. Nevertheless, even in this early painting, it is clear that his sensibility was different from his teacher's. The disposition of the figures is less rigidly related to the architecture, and the disposition of each figure in relation to the others is more informal and animated. The sweetness of the figures and the gentle relation between them surpasses anything in Perugino's work. - Raphael biography and his oil painting art reproductions.

Three small paintings done by Raphael shortly after The Marriage of the Virgin - Vision of a Knight, Three Graces, and St Michael - are masterful examples of narrative painting, showing, as well as youthful freshness, a maturing ability to control the elements of his own style. Although he had learned much from Perugino, Raphael Raffaello Sanzio by late 1504 needed other models to work from; it is clear that his desire for knowledge was driving him to look beyond Perugia.

Move to Florence

Vasari vaguely recounts that Raphael Raffaello Sanzio followed the Perugian painter Bernardino Pinturicchio to Siena and then went on to Florence, drawn there by accounts of the work that Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were undertaking in that city. By the autumn of 1504 he had certainly arrived in Florence. It is not known if this was his first visit to Florence, but, as his works attest, it was about 1504 that he first came into substantial contact with this artistic civilization, which reinforced all the ideas Raphael had already acquired and also opened to him new and broader horizons. Vasari records that he studied not only the works of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Fra Bartolomeo, who were the masters of the High Renaissance, but also "the old things of Masaccio," a pioneer of the naturalism that marked the departure of the early Renaissance from the Gothic.

Still, his principal teachers in Florence were Leonardo and Michelangelo. Many of the works that Raphael Raffaello Sanzio executed in the years between 1505 and 1507, most notably a great series of Madonnas including The Madonna of the Goldfinch (c. 1505; Uffizi Gallery, Florence), the Madonna del Prato (c. 1505; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), the Esterházy Madonna (c. 1505-07; Museum of Fine Art, Budapest), and La Belle Jardinière (c. 1507; Louvre Museum, Paris), are marked by the influence of Leonardo, who since 1480 had been making great innovations in painting. Raphael Raffaello Sanzio was particularly influenced by Leonardo's Madonna and Child with St. Anne pictures, which are marked by an intimacy and simplicity of setting uncommon in 15th-century art. Raphael learned the Florentine method of building up his composition in depth with pyramidal figure masses; the figures are grouped as a single unit, but each retains its own individuality and shape. A new unity of composition and suppression of inessentials distinguishes the works he painted in Florence. Raphael Raffaello Sanzio also owed much to Leonardo's lighting techniques; he made moderate use of Leonardo's chiaroscuro (i.e., strong contrast between light and dark), and he was especially influenced by his sfumato (i.e., use of extremely fine, soft shading instead of line to delineate forms and features). Raphael Raffaello Sanzio went beyond Leonardo, however, in creating new figure types whose round, gentle faces reveal uncomplicated and typically human sentiments but raised to a sublime perfection and serenity. - Raphael biography and his oil painting art reproductions.

In 1507 Raphael was commissioned to paint the Deposition of Christ that is now in the Borghese Gallery in Rome. In this work, it is obvious that he set himself deliberately to learn from Michelangelo the expressive possibilities of human anatomy. But he differed from Leonardo and Michelangelo, who were both painters of dark intensity and excitement, in that he wished to develop a calmer and more extroverted style that would serve as a popular, universally accessible form of visual communication.- Raphael raffaello Sanzio original oil painting Bio by Italy.

Last years in Rome

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio was called to Rome toward the end of 1508 by Pope Julius II at the suggestion of the architect Donato Bramante. At this time he was little known in Rome, but the young man soon made a deep impression on the volatile Julius and the papal court, and his authority as a master grew day by day. Raphael was endowed with a handsome appearance and great personal charm in addition to his prodigious artistic talents, and he eventually became so popular that he was called "the prince of painters."

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio spent the last 12 years of his short life in Rome. They were years of feverish activity and successive masterpieces. His first task in the city was to paint a cycle of frescoes in a suite of medium-sized rooms in the Vatican papal apartments in which Julius himself lived and worked; these rooms are known simply as the Stanze. The Stanza della Segnatura (1508-11) and Stanza d'Eliodoro (1512-14) were decorated practically entirely by himself; the murals in the Stanza dell'Incendio (1514-17), though designed by Raphael Raffaello Sanzio, were largely executed by his numerous assistants and pupils. - Raphael biography and his oil painting art reproductions.

The decoration of the Stanza della Segnatura was perhaps his greatest work. Julius II was a highly cultured man who surrounded himself with the most illustrious personalities of the Renaissance. Raphael Raffaello Sanzio entrusted Bramante with the construction of a new basilica of St. Peter to replace the original 4th-century church; he called upon Michelangelo to execute his tomb and compelled him against his will to decorate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel; and, sensing the genius of his, he committed into his hands the interpretation of the philosophical scheme of the frescoes in the Stanza della Segnatura. This theme was the historical justification of the power of the Roman Catholic church through Neoplatonic philosophy.

The four main fresco walls in the Stanza della Segnatura are occupied by the Disputa and the School of Athens on the larger walls and the Parnassus and Cardinal Virtues on the smaller walls. The two most important of these frescoes are the Disputa and the School of Athens. The Disputa, showing a celestial vision of God and his prophets and apostles above a gathering of representatives, past and present, of the Roman Catholic church, equates through its iconography the triumph of the church and the triumph of truth. The School of Athens is a complex allegory of secular knowledge, or philosophy, showing Plato and Aristotle surrounded by philosophers, past and present, in a splendid architectural setting; it illustrates the historical continuity of Platonic thought. The School of Athens is perhaps the most famous of all his frescoes, and one of the culminating artworks of the High Renaissance. Here Raphael Raffaello Sanzio fills an ordered and stable space with figures in a rich variety of poses and gestures, which he controls in order to make one group of figures lead to the next in an interweaving and interlocking pattern, bringing the eye to the central figures of Plato and Aristotle at the converging point of the perspective space. The space in which the philosophers congregate is defined by the pilasters and barrel vaults of a great basilica that is based on Bramante's design for the new St Peter's in Rome. The general effect of the fresco is one of majestic calm, clarity, and equilibrium. - Raphael biography and his oil painting art reproductions.

About the same time, probably in 1511, Raphael painted a more secular subject, the Triumph of Galatea in the Villa Farnesina in Rome; this work was perhaps the High Renaissance's most successful evocation of the living spirit of classical antiquity. Meanwhile, his decoration of the papal apartments continued after the death of Julius in 1513 and into the succeeding pontificate of Leo X until 1517. In contrast to the generalized allegories in the Stanza della Segnatura, the decorations in the second room, the Stanza d'Eliodoro, portray specific miraculous events in the history of the Christian church. The four principal subjects are The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple, The Miracle at Bolsena, The Liberation of St Peter, and Leo I Halting Attila. These frescoes are deeper and richer in color than are those in the earlier room, and they display a new boldness on his part in both their dramatic subjects and their unusual effects of light. The Liberation of St Peter, for example, is a night scene and contains three separate lighting effects - moonlight, the torch carried by a soldier, and the supernatural light emanating from an angel. He delegated his assistants to decorate the third room, the Stanze dell'Incendio, with the exception of one fresco, the Fire in the Borgo, in which his pursuit of more dramatic pictorial incidents and his continuing study of the male nude are plainly apparent.

The Madonnas that Raphael Raffaello Sanzio painted in Rome show him turning away from the serenity and gentleness of his earlier works in order to emphasize qualities of energetic movement and grandeur. His Alba Madonna (1508; National Gallery, Washington) epitomizes the serene sweetness of the Florentine Madonnas but shows a new maturity of emotional expression and supreme technical sophistication in the poses of the figures. It was followed by the Madonna di Foligno (1510; Vatican Museum) and the Sistine Madonna (1513; Gemäldegalerie, Dresden), which show both the richness of color and new boldness in compositional invention typical of his Roman period. Some of his other late Madonnas, such as the Madonna of Francis I (Louvre), are remarkable for their polished elegance. Besides his other accomplishments, he became the most important portraitist in Rome during the first two decades of the 16th century. Raphael Raffaello Sanzio introduced new types of presentation and new psychological situations for his sitters, as seen in the portrait of Leo X with Two Cardinals (1517-19; Uffizi, Florence). his finest work in the genre is perhaps the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (1516; Louvre), a brilliant and arresting character study.- original oil painting by Italian famous painters.

Leo X commissioned Raphael Raffaello Sanzio to design 10 large tapestries to hang on the walls of the Sistine Chapel. Seven of the ten cartoons (full-size preparatory drawings) were completed by 1516, and the tapestries woven after them were hung in place in the chapel by 1519. The tapestries themselves are still in the Vatican, while seven of his original cartoons are in the British royal collection and are on view at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. These cartoons represent Christ's Charge to Peter, The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, The Death of Ananias, The Healing of the Lame Man, The Blinding of Elymas, The Sacrifice at Lystra, and St Paul Preaching at Athens. In these pictures Raphael created prototypes that would influence the European tradition of narrative history painting for centuries to come. The cartoons display his keen sense of drama, his use of gestures and facial expressions to portray emotion, and his incorporation of credible physical settings from both the natural world and that of ancient Roman architecture.

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