Raphael
1483-1520
Italian High Renaissance Painter and Architect
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
Stylistically influenced by the following painters - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Paolo Uccello, Leonardo da Vinci, Pietro Perugino, Classical Greek Art
Education - Apprenticed to Pietro Perugino
Cause of Death - syphilis is a venereal disease, known as the 'French disease' in 15th century. Syphilis was the AIDS of the Renaissance. The disease became epidemic among the freewheeling Florentines causing the death of thousands. Raphael was just he was 37 years old when he died.
Mediums - oil on oak panel, oil on canvas, fresco
Biography
Raphael was one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance. Giorgio Vasari, Raphael's biographer describes the artist thusly "him liberality with which Heaven now and again unites in one person the inexhaustible riches of its treasures and all those graces and rare gifts which are usually shared among many over a long period is seen in Raphael Sanzio of Urbino, who was as excellent as gracious, and endowed with a natural modesty and goodness sometimes seen in those who possess to an unusual degree a humane and gentle nature adorned with affability and good-fellowship, and he always showed himself sweet and pleasant with persons of every degree and in all circumstances."
Raphael's Apprenticeship
Art historian, Walter
Horatio Pater, describes the
artists apprenticeship;
"During his apprenticeship
at
Perugino, Raphael visited
and left his work in more
modest places round about,
along those seductive
mountain or lowland roads,
and copied for one of them
Perugino?s ?Marriage of the
Virgin? significantly, did
it by many degrees better,
with a very novel effect of
motion everywhere, and with
that grace which natural
motion evokes, introducing
for a temple in the
background a lovely bit of
his friend Bramante?s sort
of architecture, the true
Renaissance or perfected
Quattro-cento architecture.
He goes on building a whole
lordly new city of the like
as he paints to the end of
his life. The subject, we
may note, as we leave
Perugia in Raphael?s
company, had been suggested
by the famous mystic
treasure of its cathedral
church, the marriage ring of
the Blessed Virgin herself."
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