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Giovanni Santi ( c. 1435 – 1 August 1494) was an Italian painter and decorator, father of Raphael. He was born in 1435 at Colbordolo in the Duchy of Urbino. He studied under Piero della Francesca and was influenced by Fiorenzo di Lorenzo. He was court painter to the Duke of Urbino and painted several altarpieces.
This is the finest among the surviving small-scale images of the Virgin and Child by Giovanni Santi, father of Raphael, and a successful painter, poet and courtier in Urbino. Santi, like other Renaissance artists, often borrowed figures and motifs from other painters.
Raphael, Self portrait (chalk heightened with white on paper). Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK / The Bridgeman Art Library. Raffaelo di Giovanni Santi was the younger contemporary of Leonardo and Michelangelo, and with them epitomizes the High Renaissance in Italy.
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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.
The Virgin and Child perhaps about 1488. Giovanni Santi (1430/1440–1494) The National Gallery, London. (b ?Colbordola, nr. Urbino, ?c.1440; d Urbino, 1 Aug. 1494). Italian painter and writer, the father of Raphael, active mainly in Urbino, where he worked for the court.
A man noted also for wit and charm, he has often been called the “prince of painters.”. Raphael must have studied first with his father, painter at the court of Urbino, an environment rich in the arts and humanist learning. The elder Santi died when the boy was 11. Whether Raphael entered the workshop of Perugino at that time or, as seems ...
Overview. Provenance. Exhibition History. References. Notes. Title: The Agony in the Garden. Artist: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome) Date: ca. 1504. Medium: Oil on wood. Dimensions: 9 1/2 × 11 3/8 in. (24.1 × 28.9 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Funds from various donors, 1932.
