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  Raphael Sanzio - LoveToKnow 1911
Though Raphael lost his father at the age of eleven, yet to him he certainly owed a great part of that early training which enabled him to produce paintings of apparently mature beauty when he was scarcely twenty years of age.
Raphael's painting, though by far the more beautiful of the two, is yet inferior to that of Pinturicchio in the composition of the whole; an awkward horizontal line divides the upper group of the Coronation from that below, the apostles standing round the Virgin's tomb, filled with roses and lilies (Dante, Par.
For him Raphael painted, in 1513-14, the very beautiful fresco of the Triumph of Galatea in his new palace by the Tiber bank, the Villa Farnesina, and also made a large series of magnificent designs from Apuleius's romance of Cupid and Psyche, which were carried out by a number of his pupils.
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 Raphael (TMNT) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Raphael's anger is not always fully explored, although in certain incarnations of the TMNT, it seems his anger stems from realizing, more than his brothers do, that they are the only creatures of their kind and are ultimately alone.
Raphael mellowed somewhat as the series went on; possibly a key moment for his character development was when he allowed Leonardo alone to defeat The Shredder in Issue 21 of Volume 1.
Ninjara, Raphael's girlfriend in the TMNT Archie comic series, was once a part of an ancient race of humanoid foxes living on a hidden island off the coast of Japan.
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 MyStudios- Raphael Sanzio
Raphael's color and the emotional qualities of his work always remained within the tradition of Central Italian painting, while his sense of composition and the dynamic power of his draughtsmanship were learned from the Florentines.
By 1508 Raphael was receiving offers from both the French court and the Pope; late in that year he went to Rome to take part in the grandiose decorative schemes of Pope Julius II for the new Papal apartments in the Vatican.
Raphael's response to the enormous artistic challenge his part of the scheme presented is also one of those astonishing 'leaps forward' in art history and is matched, perhaps, only by Masaccio's painting of the frescoes in the Carmine church, Florence, 100 years earlier, and the exactly contemporary (1508-12) frescoes of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel.
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 Biography
Raphael was called to Rome toward the end of 1508 by Pope Julius II at the suggestion of the architect Donato Bramante.
Raphael delegated his assistants to decorate the third room, the Stanze dell'Incendio, with the exception of one fresco, the Fire in the Borgo, in which his pursuit of more dramatic pictorial incidents and his continuing study of the male nude are plainly apparent.
Raphael's last masterpiece is the Transfiguration (commissioned in 1517), an enormous altarpiece that was unfinished at his death and completed by his assistant Giulio Romano.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Raphael (1483-1520)
Raphael's Madonnas are all his own; they have not the melancholy affectation of those of Botticelli, nor the mysterious smile of those of Leonardo.
Raphael wished to display all his knowledge and resources, uniting on the same canvas the qualities of the two masters of the "cartoons" of the Signory, the men whom he most admired and who tantalized him most, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
It is probable that Bramante who, like Raphael, was a native of Urbino, actively furthered his young townsman's interest with the pope, and caused him to be received among the inner circle of artists whom Julius II had engaged for the works in his palace.
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 Raphael Sanzio
Raphael was the son of Giovanni Santi (died 1494), a painter at the court of Urbino.
Raphael's first fresco series there, The School of Athens, is a complex but classically composed grouping of Greek philosophers and mathematicians, centred on the figures of Plato and Aristotle.
Raphael received many commissions and within the next few years he produced mythological frescoes in the Villa Farnesina in Rome 1511–12; cartoons for tapestries for the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican; the Sistine Madonna (c.
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 Raphael
At Federico's court, Raphael was introduced to the works of such artists as Paolo Uccello, Luca Signorelli, Melozzo da Forlí and Francesco di Giorgio, as well as the Flemish artists Hieronymus Bosch and joos van Gent.
Raphael's cartoons for the cycle, which are today housed in London, were produced between 1515 and 1518.
Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael in Renaissance Florence from 1500 to 1508, by Serafina Hager.
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 Malaspina Great Books - Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) (1483-1520)
Perugino's influence was important to a young man of eighteen, and, in fact, with his wonderful faculty of assimilation, Raphael had soon succeeded in mastering the suggestions and methods of the older painter,; his poetic sense of light and space, his harmoniously symmetrical system of composition.
Raphael's Madonnas are all his own; they have not the melancholy affectation of those of Botticelli, nor the mysterious smile of those of Leonardo da Vinci.
Raphael was therefore not sufficiently careful of his reputation when he confided his most original inspirations to his pupils, for they lost in being expressed by others.
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 Raphael Sanzio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-11)
Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) was one of the three greatest painters of the High Renaissance in Italy.
Raphael was deeply indebted to the sculpture of antiquity, and he achieved a harmony and monumentality of interpretation that were emulated far into the 19th century.324 Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) was one of the three greatest painters of the High Renaissance in Italy.
Raphael was deeply indebted to the sculpture of antiquity, and he achieved a harmony and monumentality of interpretation that were emulated far into the 19th century.
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 Raphael - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Raphael or Raffaello (April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520) was a master painter and architect of the Florentine school in the Italian High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and softness of his paintings.
The surname Sanzio derives from the latinization of the Italian, Santi, into Santius (also, when signing solely using his baptismal name, "Raphael").
After his arrival in Rome portraits became a secondary task for Raphael as he devoted his efforts to the great Vatican projects, although he still painted portraits of his 2 main patrons, the two popes Julius II and his successor Leo X, the latter being considered one of his finest portraits.
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 RAPHAEL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-11)
Raphael was one of the greatest and most popular artists of all time.
Raphael was born on April 6, 1483, as Raffaello Sanzio.
Raphael died on his thirty-seventh birthday, April 6, 1520, and was buried in the Pantheon amidst universal mourning and acclaim.
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 Raphael
Raphael was born Raffaello Santi or Raffaello Sanzio in Urbino on April 6, 1483, and received his early training in art from his father, the painter Giovanni Santi.
Raphael imitated his master closely; their paintings of this period are executed in styles so similar that art historians have found it difficult to determine which were painted by Raphael.
Raphael also devised the architecture and decorations of the Chigi Chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo and the decorations of the Villa Farnesina, which include the Triumph of Galatea (1513?).
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 Matt's Raphael Page
Raphael whose full name was Raphael Sanzio, (also known as Raphael Sanzi), was born on April 6, 1483.
His father, Giovanni Sanzio, was a painter for the court of Federigo da Montefeltro, and as well as being a painter, he was a bit of a poet.
In 1508, at the age of 24, Raphael was invited to the Vatican by Pope Julius II.
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 Raphael Sanzio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-11)
Raphael Sanzio was born April 6, 1483 in Urbino, Italy to Giovanni Sanzio and Magia di Battista Ciarla.
Raphael moved on to Florence, interested in the work he had heard of that was being created by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
Raphael continues decorating the rooms, even after Julius dies and was succeeded by Leo X. The second room decorated by Raphael showed some history of the Christian Church.
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 Sanford & A Lifetime of Color: Study Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-11)
Raphael's mother died when he was eight years old and his father died three years later, leaving Raphael an orphan.
Raphael was known to be sweet-natured and agreeable--in fact, the opposite in temperament of his peer, Michelangelo.
Raphael was not only considered, in his day, to be the greatest painter of all time, he was also an architect and a specialist in Greek and Roman art.
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 Raffaello Sanzio
Raphael’s early works resembled Perugino’s so much that paintings such as the Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene were thought to be Raphael’s until the church of San Gimingniano proved that they were in fact Perugino’s.
Raphael’s energetic paintings with softness and balance such as the "Small Cauper Madonna", were influenced directly from Michelangelo.
Raphael also painted the Alba Madonna in a classic symmetrical triangle which was consistent with the painting techniques of that time.
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 CGFA- Bio: Raphael
Raphael was an Italian Renaissance painter who is considered one of the greatest and most popular artists of all time.
He was born Raffaello Santi or Raffaello Sanzio in Urbino on April 6, 1483, and received his early training in art from his father, the painter Giovanni Santi.
Among Raphael's independent works executed at Perugia are two large-scale paintings, the celebrated Sposalizio, or Marriage of the Virgin (1504, Brera Gallery, Milan), and The Crucified Christ with the Virgin Mary, Saints and Angels (1503?, National Gallery, London).
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 Raphael (1483 -1520) - Renaissance Artist
Pope Julius II summoned Raphael to Rome in 1508 where he was employed to complete the fresco decoration of a number of rooms in the Vatican.
After completing the second room, in 1514 Raphael was in such demand that assistants completed much of his work from then on.
François I of France avidly collected works by Raphael which were subsequently put on display in public galleries (The Great Holy Family of François I).
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 Raphael ( RAFFAELLO SANZIO) - master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance
Raphael is one of the most acute of all portraitists, effortlessly cleaving through the external defences of his sitter, yet courteously colluding with whatever image the ego would seek to have portrayed.
Raphael's life was short, but while he lived he was one of those geniuses who continually evolve and develop.
Raphael's greatest paintings seem so effortless that one does not usually connect them with the idea of hard and relentless work.
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 Raphael
When his close friend Agostino Chigi commissioned him to decorate the first loggia in his palace (Villa Farnesina q.v.), Raphael could not give his mind to the work because of his infatuation for his mistress.
Agostino was almost in despair when with great difficulty he managed to arrange for the woman to go and live with Raphael in the part of the house where he was working; and that was how the painting was finished.
Raphael depicted the two saintly virgins with the most wonderfully varied head-dresses anywhere to be seen." I-288
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 Raphael Sanzio Framed Art Prints at Picasso Art
Raphael, the last of the three greatest painters of the Renaissance, was born Raffaello Sanzio in Urbino, in the province of Umbria.
Under the influence of Michelangelo Buonarroti and Leonardo da Vinci, both of whom were in Florence during this time, Raphael, whose early work already surpassed his master's, soon lost any provincial tendencies as he began to adopt Michelangelo's vigorous energy and Leonardo's sfumato and spiritualism.
Raphael's work became luminous in atmosphere, rich and clear in color, harmonious in movement, sculpturally three-dimensional, and perfectly balanced in composition.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Vatican
Urban VI (1378) and his successors restored to the palace a degree of comfort as a place of residence, so that, when Martin V came from Constance to Rome (28 September, 1420), little remained to be undertaken except some rearrangement of the apartments.
This hall was erected by Raphael Stern at the commission of Pius VII, at a cost of 1,500,000 lire ($300,000).
Raphael made cartoons for ten of the Galleria tapestries; his pupils Penni and Pierin del Vaga executed twelve others in accordance with smaller sketches of the master; five are works of more recent date.
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 Raphael (1483 - 1520) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Raphael was accused of copying his ideas, but his pleasant disposition secured powerful allies.
One of Raphael’s largest commissions were the papal apartments in the Vatican, where he created numerous frescoes, the most famous being The School of Athens.
Raphael’s promising career ended abruptly when died of a fever at the age of 37.
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 Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael): Madonna and Child
Closer examination of the plaque mounted aside the painting reveals that it is a "Raphael," at least attributed to his studio.
It is a typical Raphael composition and is representative of the many "Madonna and Child" pieces painted by Raphael during his years in Florence between 1504 and 1508.
Though Raphael’s clothing usually isn’t particularly shiny or shimmering, the differences between the two suggest that this part of the painting was either painted by a student or was done hurriedly.
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