Where did raphael live

Summary of Raphael

Alive for only 37 prolific and passionate years, Raphael blazed a comet's trail of painting throughout the apex of the Italian High Renaissance. His true lust for life translated onto the canvas where his skill in presenting the Renaissance Humanist era's ideals of beauty was breathtakingly new. He is, alongside Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo, considered an equal part of the holy trinity of master artists of his time.

Accomplishments

• Raphael's prodigiousness in painting - despite his relatively short life - was a result of his training that began when he was just a mere child. From a childhood spent in his painter father's workshop to his adult life running one of the largest workshops of its kind, he garnered a reputation as one of the most productive artists of his time.
• The serene and harmonious qualities of Raphael's paintings were regarded as some of the highest models of the humanist impetus of the time, which sought to explore man's importance in the world through artwork that emphasized supreme beauty.
• Raphael not only mastered the signature
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  Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, commonly called Raphael (RAFF ay el) was born in Urbino in the Marche area of central Italy. He probably learned to paint in his father's art studio. His mother died when he was eight, and he became an orphan when he was eleven and his father died.
  
  It was at this time he entered the studio of the artist Perugino. It soon became apparent that he was going to become a great artist. He studied the paintings of Michelangelo and Leonardo di Vinci and was greatly influenced by those artists.
  
  When he was twenty-one years old he moved to Florence and began to paint beautiful portraits. So many people wanted portraits painted by him! He could not paint fast enough to keep up with the demand, so he hired other artists to do parts of the paintings. Raphael might paint the face and let someone else paint the clothing in the picture.
  
  The featured painting on this page is St. George and the Dragon. You will enjoy reading the story behind the legendat Wikipedia.org.
  
  He became so famous that Pope Julius II (the Second)commissioned him to decorate his apartment

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  Raphael

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  Jeryldene Wood

  • LAST REVIEWED: 24 July 2018
  • LAST MODIFIED: 24 July 2018
  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0074

• Barocchi, Paola, ed. Scritti d’arte del Cinquecento. 3 vols. Milan and Naples, Italy: R. Ricciardi, 1971–1977.

  Collection of 16th-century writings on art, arranged thematically by medium and theoretical concept and subdivided by author. Includes Raphael’s life by Giovio (Vol. 1), his letter to Castiglione on imitation (Vol. 2), and his letter thanking Calvo for his translation of Vitruvius (Vol. 3).

• Giovio, Paolo. “Raphaelis Urbinatis Vita.” In Raphael in Early Modern Sources (1483–1602). 2 vols. Edited by John Shearman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.

  With Leonardo and Michelangelo, comprises a trilogy of famous artists. The brief biography of Raphael praises the artist’s narrative skills, the grace of his painting style, and his commitment to antiquity in preserving monuments and designing architecture. His selection of works and themes influenced Vasari’s better known biography. Originally