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Biography of Raphael

, he is with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo together titled as “three most distinguished artists in the Renaissance”, and Raphael is the youngest one. The painter passed away at his 37, but because of his diligence, he left more than 300 pieces of precious art paintings for the world. Raphael art was called “classicism” by people in later ages, which not only inspired Baroque art but also had a profound influence on the classicism in 17th century French. So, oil painting lovers are very interested in Raphael biography, and reproductions of his paintings for sale in gallery are prevalent.

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Raphael Biography

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 Sanctius, Raphaeel Santi, Raphael Sanctius Urbinas.

Student of: Pietro Perugino (c.1445-1523).
Friend of: Bernardino Pinturicchio (c.1454-1513).

Biography: 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. He is best known for Raphael paintings Madonna and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican in Rome. his art is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. -

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

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 Raphael 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 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.

In 1507 RAFFAELLO SANZIO was commissioned to paint the Deposition of Christ that is now in the Borghese Raphael paintings gallery in Rome. In this oil painting, 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 artists 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 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, were largely executed by his numerous assistants and pupils.

Last famous Raphael oil painting masterpiece is the Transfiguration (commissioned in 1517), an enormous altarpiece that was unfinished at his death and completed by his assistant Giulio Romano.

It now hangs in the Vatican Museum. The Transfiguration is a complex work that combines extreme formal polish and elegance of execution with an atmosphere of tension and violence communicated by the agitated gestures of closely crowded groups of figures. It shows a new sensibility that is like the prevision of a new world, turbulent and dynamic; in its feeling and composition it inaugurated the Mannerist movement and tends toward an expression that may even be called Baroque.

Raphael died on his 37th birthday. His funeral mass was celebrated at the Vatican, his Transfiguration was placed at the head of the bier, and his body was buried in the Pantheon in Rome.

Analysis of Best Known Paintings by Raphael

-- Author: Lewis L., Toperfect Director.

Raphael painting - The Sistine Madonna
1513-1514, 265×196cm
The large oil painting The Sistine Madonna is the most successful Raphael portrait of Madonna. It is a devout song of praise for Madonna.
The painter adopted a stable pyramidal composition in this oil painting supplies. The image is as large as life and the background is composed of the head portrait of angels. At Madonna’s feet, kneel the old Pope and beautiful young Saint Barbara. Two winged cherubs are sneering at the world. The soft and holy image of The Sistine Madonna expresses the happiness and greatness of motherhood. Young Christ leans close to his mother, with big eyes looking at the world. Eyes filled with fear and upset, he seems to know what will happen.
The Sistine Madonna is Raphael’s major representative work painted at the age of 32, his golden age of creation. In The Sistine Madonna Raphael expressed the confrontation between brightness and the darkness excellently.

Raphael famous paintings The School of Athens
1509, 800cm wide
The Vatican Museum is one of the three large panel frescoes for Palace of the Vatican by Raphael. Raphael assembled more than 50 Christian or paganish philosophers and thinkers since ancient Greek in the painting The School of Athens, including Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Pythagorasor and the painter himself, in order to extol human beings’ pursuit of wisdom as well as truth and praise their creativity.
The whole fresco of Raphael The School of Athens is brimming with a strong atmosphere of academic research and free discussion. They either talk with each other or think alone; the figures are standing, sitting or walking. As a humanist, Raphael always tries to give the figures enough freedom in the painting. In the centre of The School of Athens, Plato’s gesture of pointing to the heaven indicates his idealism, while Aristotle beside him is pointing to the world with his right hand to represent his materialism. On the two sides, some celebrated scholars are vividly depicted in good order.
The School of Athens by Raphael not only presents the figures’ characteristics and spirits; but also links the picture and the architecture tactfully, which increases the special effect and makes the whole piece of art painting appear more magnificent.

Raphael paintings The Transfiguration
1517, 410×279cm
The Transfiguration was created for a church in France by Raphael in request of the cardinal. It is considered as last famous Raphael painting.
The content of The Transfiguration is based on Matthew. The light on the ground is dark while the radiance from Jesus lights up the crowds. Lifted up by holy light and clouds, Jesus floated down from the sky. On both sides of the Christ ascend Moses and Elijah and on the top of the hill lie the terrified disciples.
The upper part of The Transfiguration was finished himself while the crowds were painted by his pupil. According to research the figures on the left bottom were painted by Raphael, hence there exist strong contrasts in the light and shade as well as the shape of the figures.
The bright colours of The Transfiguration indicates that Raphael absorbed the Venice school’s achievement in use of color.

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