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Raphael
Italian painter and architect
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Arts & Culture
- Notable Works:
- “Disputa” “School of Athens” Stanza d’Elidoro Stanza della Segnatura “The Liberation of St. Peter” “The Marriage of the Virgin” “Transfiguration”
- Movement / Style:
- Early Renaissance Renaissance
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Raphael, Italian in full Raffaello Sanzio or Raffaello Santi, (born April 6, 1483, Urbino, Duchy of Urbino [Italy]—died April 6, 1520, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), 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. 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. Raphael was the son of Giovanni Santi and Magia di Battista Ciarla; his mother died in 1491. His father was, according to the 16th-century artist ...(100 of 2458 words)