Timeless Masterpieces of The Great Masters- Raphael

Self Portrait by Raphael
Missing since World War II



St. Catherine of Alexandria (1507)



Miraculous Draught of Fishes (1515)


Deposition of Christ (1507)



Saint George and the Dragon



Madonna of the Meadow (1506)






Sistine Madonna (1513-14)



Transfiguration (1520)



The Wedding of the Virgin



RAPHAEL

Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone (in Italian Raffaello) (April 6 or March 28, 1483- April 6, 1520) 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 works remain, 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.

Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant Central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region where his father- Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centers in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Raphael was able to assimilate the influence of Florentine art while keeping his own developing style. By the end of 1508, he had moved to Rome where he lived for the rest of his life. Raphael was the ideal balanced painter, universal in his talent, satisfying all the absolute standards and obeying all the rules which were supposed to govern the arts. The excellence of this extraordinary man lay in the propriety, beauty and majesty of his characters, his judicious contrivance of his composition, correctness of drawing, purity of taste and the skillful accomodation of other men's conceptions to his own purpose. He died on a Good Friday on April 6, 1520 at the age of 37.

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Timeless Masterpieces of The Great Masters - Raphael

The Parnassus (1511)

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (1520)

The Wedding of The Virgin

The Transfiguration (1520)

Raphael (Self Portrait)

Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his name alone (April 6 or March 28, 1483- April 6, 1520) 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 died on April 6, 1520.

Tags: Timeless Masterpieces, Great Masters, Raphael, Renaissance, Vatican

Posted byMel Avila Alarilla