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  2. Raphael's early artistic career coincided with the increase in use of oil paint in Italy, and most of his early works on panel seem to use oil. In many of his earliest offerings, egg tempera was used - a mixture common with artists of this period, including Perugino.

  3. May 9, 2024 · Raphael, master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance, best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican. 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.

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  4. His main artistic influence became Leonardo da Vinci, in particular his composition, use of gesture to create dialogue, his innovative techniques of chiaroscuro and sfumato. Using this inspiration, Raphael began to formulate his own style which was quickly garnering awe and reverence for its ease of composition, clarity of form, and visual ...

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  5. Sep 14, 2022 · During this period, Raphael developed his own unique painting style, as exhibited in the religious works the Mond Crucifixion (circa 1502), The Three Graces (circa 1503), The Knight’s Dream ...

  6. Aug 21, 2020 · In his short life, Raphael created a huge catalogue of masterpieces in the media of oil painting, fresco and architecture, while a number of his creations were also converted into tapestries. In his later works, Raphael was a pioneer of the new artistic style called Mannerism where unnatural elegance replaced the Classical-inspired and ordered ...

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  7. Raphael was initially one of a number of artists hired by Julius to decorate his personal suite of rooms in the Vatican palace, a semi-public space where the pope’s interests were to be materialized in art. The first room he painted, the Stanza della Segnatura (Stanza means “room” in Italian), so perfectly aligned with Julius’s vision ...

  8. His contribution to the art of drawing was a mastery of several techniques: metalpoint, chalk or pen and ink. His figures have a grace and classical beauty that was imitated by many later artists. The serene figures of his altarpieces, frescoes and cartoons are composed with balance and harmony.

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