Raphael

1483–1520 · Holy Roman Empire · High Renaissance, Italian Renaissance

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or 6 April 1483 – 6 April 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Wikipedia

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Calm, balanced groups in clear Renaissance space, gentle oval faces, soft modelling and harmonious colour; his Madonnas are serene rather than intense.

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“The School of Athens”, 1512 — Apostolic Palace
“Sistine Madonna”, 1512 — Dresden State Art Collections
“La fornarina”, 1519 — Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica
“Transfiguration”, 1518 — Vatican Museums
“The Marriage of the Virgin”, 1504 — Pinacoteca di Brera
“Three Graces”, 1504 — Musée Condé
“Galatea”, 1513–1514 — Villa Farnesina
“Madonna of the Goldfinch”, 1505 — Uffizi Gallery
“Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione”, 1515 — Louvre
“Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn”, 1505 — Borghese Collection
“The Parnassus”, 1509–1511 — Vatican Museums
“La velata”, 1513 — Palazzo Pitti
“Madonna del Prato”, 1505 — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“The Deposition”, 1507 — Galleria Borghese
“Disputation of the Holy Sacrament”, 1509 — Vatican Museums
“La Belle Jardinière”, 1507 — Louvre
“Madonna del Granduca”, 1506 — Palazzo Pitti
“Portrait of a Young Man”, 1513 — Czartoryski Museum
“Alba Madonna”, 1510 — Hermitage Museum
“Madonna della Seggiola”, 1513 — Palazzo Pitti
“Self-portrait”, 1505 — Uffizi Gallery
“Portrait of Leo X”, 1518 — Palazzo Pitti
“The Dream of a Knight”, 1504 — National Gallery
“The Fire in the Borgo”, 1514 — Vatican Museums
“Madonna and Child (The Conestabile Madonna)”, 1504 — Hermitage Museum
“Saint George and the Dragon”, 1505 — Hermitage Museum
“Madonna of Foligno”, 1511 — Vatican Museums
“The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple”, 1511 — Vatican Museums
“Resurrection of Christ”, 1499–1502 — São Paulo Museum of Art
“Madonna of the Pinks”, 1506 — National Gallery
“Portrait of a Young Woman”, 1507 — Galleria Nazionale delle Marche
“The Mass at Bolsena”, 1512 — Vatican Museums
“Saint Catherine of Alexandria”, 1507 — National Gallery
“Madonna of Loreto”, 1509 — Borghese Collection
“Portrait of Bindo Altoviti”, 1515 — Samuel H. Kress Collection
“Liberation of Saint Peter”, 1514 — Vatican Museums
“Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga”, 1504 — Uffizi Gallery
“Madonna and Child with the Book”, 1503 — Norton Simon Museum
“Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary”, 1515 — Museo del Prado
“Mond Crucifixion”, 1502 — National Gallery

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