Raphael was the youngest contemporary of Leonardo and Michelangelo and with them he personified the High Renaissance in Italy. Throughout much of Western art history the light grace and harmonious balance of Raphael’ s style represented the ideal of perfection. Raphael must first studied at the court of Urbino with his father, an artist in an environment rich in art and humanistic culture.
After his father, Giovanni Santi, was a court painter and introduced Raphael to the art of painting as well as social skills and literature that allowed him to rise to high society and earn commissions, Raphael died in 1494, when his father died. Thanks to his natural talent and former leadership, Giovanni Raphael surpassed his father as one of the city’s finest artists as a teenager.
Raphael was fortunate enough to study with the master painter Perugino as a teenager in the Italian region of Umbria, being a student of Perugino for 4 years, from 1500 to 1504, and gained practical experience and knowledge in the field ; he was also considered one of the great masters of painting and was an Italian painter and architect during the High Renaissance.
Raphael is considered, along with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, the great trio of painting masters of the High Renaissance period. He was a prolific painter and although he died at the age of 37, he has a lot to do. Raphael was born into a family of artists, his father was the court painter of Duke of Urbino.
Raphael, Italian Rafaello Sanzio or Rafaello Santi (born April 6, 1483 in Urbino, Duchy of Urbino [Italy] – died April 6, 1520, Rome ; died April 6, 1520 ) is perhaps best known for his paintings including the Madonna in the midst (1505/06), The School of Athens (ca. 1508-11), The Sistine Madonna (1512/13), Transfiguration (1516-20) and
Undoubtedly, his interest in painting arose very early; his father was an artist and in the eleven years he spent with his father he was able to learn the basics of painting.
Rafael was able to achieve success in his career early enough thanks to these connections – the first job, commissioned by Raphael in Rome, was his largest and highest paid ever job.
In 1500, a master painter named Pietro Vannunchi, also known as Perugino, Raphael invited him to become his apprentice in Perugia in the Umbria region of central Italy, where the training lasted four years and gave Raphael the opportunity to gain both knowledge and practical experience. In 1504, Raphael moved to Siena at the invitation of the painter Pinturicchio to prepare drawings for frescoes in Piccolomini Library.
From there he went to Florence, the center of the flourishing Italian Renaissance, and stayed there for four years. In Florence, Father Bartolomeo persuaded Raphael to abandon Perugino’s subtle and elegant style in order to become more magnificent. .
Raphael is best known as a leading figure in the High Renaissance Italian classicism and for his Madonnas, including the Sistine Madonna, and for his vast compositions of figures in the Vatican Palace in Rome. Around the same time, he completed his last work in the Madonna series, an oil painting called the Sistine Madonna.
Besides a series of drawings and sometimes on the ceiling, Raphael completed a series of three rooms, each with paintings on the walls and often on the ceiling, increasingly transferring paintings from the region to the other painters including Perugino and Signorelli.
For Raphael, these pioneering artists reached a whole new level of depth in their composition by studying carefully the details of their work and rediscovered an even more complex and expressive personal style than was evident in his earlier paintings.
Raphael created the Madonnas series in 1504 to 1507 where da Vinci’s works were added to. The great Umbrian master Pietro Perugino painted the frescoes of the Collegio del Cambio in Perugia between 1498 and 1500, which enabled Raphael to gain extensive professional knowledge as a member of his workshop and was also influenced by Perugino’s calm and sophisticated style.
His works delight with clarity of form, ease of composition and visual realization of the neo-Platonic ideal of human greatness. Raphael was the son of Giovanni Santi and the Magic of Battista Ciarla ; his mother died in 1491.
Raphael is celebrated as the legacy of the great masters of the period (April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520) as he celebrates the 500th anniversary of his death in museums around the world, influencing generations of artists including Guido Reni, Jean-Auguste. -Dominic Ingres and the English Pre-Raphaelites. The most famous work is the Athens school in the Vatican Stanza della Segna.
