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Raphael (1483-1520)

Aliases: Rafael; Raffael; Raffaello Santi da Urbino; Raffaello Sanzio; Raphael; Raphaël; Raphael (1483); Raphael Urbinas; Raphaello; Raffaello Santi; Raffaello Sanzio

Professions: Painter

  • Portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (1492-1519), three-quarter-length, holding a gold box

  • RAFFAELLO SANZIO, CALLED RAPHAEL URBINO 1483 - 1520 ROME

  • Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Urbino 1483-1520 Rome)

  • STUDIO OF RAFFAELLO SANZIO, CALLED RAPHAEL URBINO 1483 - 1520 ROME

Raphael Biography

(b Urbino, 28 March or 6 April 1483; d Rome, 6 April 1520). Italian painter, draughtsman and architect. He has always been acknowledged as one of the greatest European artists. With Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Titian, he was one of the most famous painters working in Italy in the period from 1500 to 1520, often identified as the High Renaissance, and in this period he was perhaps the most important figure. His early altarpieces (of 1500–07) were made for Città di Castello and Perugia; in Florence between 1504 and 1508 he created some of his finest portraits and a series of devotional paintings of the Holy Family. In 1508 he moved to Rome, where he decorated in fresco the Stanze of the papal apartments in the Vatican Palace—perhaps his most celebrated works—as well as executing smaller paintings in oil (including portraits) and a series of major altarpieces, some of which were sent from Rome to other centres. In Rome, Raphael came to run a large workshop. He also diversified, working as an architect and designer of prints.

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  • n,s - STUDIO OF RAFFAELLO SANZIO, CALLED RAPHAEL URBINO 1483 - 1520 ROME,  Raphael, Click for value View Details
  • ENTOURAGE DE RAFFAELLO SANZIO, DIT RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-1520 ROME) ,  Raphael, Click for value View Details
  • Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609). , Galeriæ Farnesianæ icones Romæ in aedibus Sereniss. Ducis Parmensis. Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, [1674] , engraved throughout, illustration : title-page, 2 dedication leaves, portrait (dated 1674) and 21,  Raphael, Click for value View Details
  • Circle of Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Urbino 1483-1520 Rome) ,  Raphael, Click for value View Details
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 Raffaello Sanzio d'Urbino (1483-1520). , Teste scelte di personaggi illustri in lettere, e in armi... dipinte nel Vaticano da Rafaello d'Urbino, ora esattamente disegnate, incise... da Paolo Fidanza. Rome, 1757-1759 
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  • Raffael SANTI(Urbino 1483 - 1520 Rom) - Nachahmer,,  Raphael, Click for value View Details

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