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Sep 14, 2022 · Early Life and Training. Raphael was born Raffaello Sanzio on April 6, 1483, in Urbino, Italy. At the time, Urbino was a cultural center that encouraged the Arts. Raphael’s father, Giovanni...
May 9, 2024 · Raphael (born April 6, 1483, Urbino, Duchy of Urbino [Italy]—died April 6, 1520, Rome, Papal States [Italy]) was a master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican.
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- Raphael was one of the most talented painters of the Italian Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and f...
- Raphael is probably most famous for his paintings, including Madonna in the Meadow (1505/06), School of Athens (c. 1508–11), Sistine Madonna (1512/...
- Raphael was born to Giovanni Santi, a painter, and Magia di Battista Ciarla, both of whom died when Raphael was a child. Biographer Giorgio Vasari...
- Raphael’s father, a painter, offered his son his first lessons. Raphael later joined Perugino’s workshop about the 1490s, but scholars debate wheth...
- Raphael died of a fever at the age of 37. Biographer Giorgio Vasari mentions Raphael’s love of women and alleges that the fever was caused by a nig...
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino [a] ( Italian: [raffaˈɛllo ˈsantsjo da urˈbiːno]; March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520), [2] [b] now generally known in English as Raphael ( UK: / ˈræfeɪ.əl / RAF-ay-əl, US: / ˈræfi.əl, ˈreɪfi -, ˌrɑːfaɪˈɛl / RAF-ee-əl, RAY-fee-, RAH-fy-EL ), [4] was an Italian painter and architect of the ...
By the time he died, Raphael is said to have had a workshop of over fifty apprentices, which was larger than any other painter at the time. Raphael died in Rome on Good Friday, April 6, 1520 when he was only 37 years old.
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Oct 14, 2023 · Italian born towards the end of the 15th century, he also achieved great respect as an architect, designer and draughtsman. Raphael was born Raffaello Santi in Urbino, Italy, in 1483 - the son of Giovanni Santi, a painter and writer to the court of Fedrico da Montefeltro.
From 1500 - when he became an independent master - to 1508 he worked throughout central Italy, particularly Florence, where he became a noted portraitist and painter of Madonnas. In 1508, at the age of 25, he was called to the court of Pope Julius II to help with the redecoration of the papal apartments.
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Dec 22, 2020 · Raphael was born in Urbino in northeastern Italy in 1483, the only surviving child of Magia di Battista Ciarla and Giovanni Santi, a painter in the court of the Duke of Urbino.
