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Raphael 1483 - 1520

Raphael 1483 - 1520. Influences in his life. Raffaelo Sanzio was born in Urbino April 6 th 1483. youngest of 3 grants of the high Renaissance. At 17 his father sent him to Perugia to become an apprentice under the highly-regarded Perugino.

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Raphael 1483 - 1520

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  1. Raphael 1483 - 1520

  2. Influences in his life • RaffaeloSanzio was born in Urbino April 6th 1483. • youngest of 3 grants of the high Renaissance. • At 17 his father sent him to Perugia to become an apprentice under the highly-regarded Perugino. • He imitated Perugino closely. At times it was hard to tell which paintings had been done by Raphael and which were done by Perugino. • One of his greatest paintings was the marriage of the virgin.

  3. Influences in his life continued • Raphael began to change his style he had learned slowly to the new techniques of Leonardo and Michelangelo. • His work changed from the typical style of Umbrian school with its emphasis on rigidly geometrical composition to a more animated, informal manner of painting. • He is best known for his Madonna's and large figure compositions.

  4. Other works • Raphael was a keen student of archaeology and of ancient Greco-Roman sculpture. • He did his first architectural work designing the church of Sant’ EligiodegliOrefici. • Later in 1513 a banker commissioned him to design and decorate his funerary chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo.

  5. Raphael’s Death • Raphael died in Rome on his 37th birthday, April 6th, 1520. • His funeral mass was at the Vatican. • His body was buried in the Pantheon in Rome.

  6. Raphael After Death • Raphael’s work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement. • His last masterpiece was the transfiguration. • Its an enormous alter piece that was unfinished at his death and was later on finished by his assistant Giulio Romano. • It now hangs at the Vatican Museum and was placed at the head of the bier at the funeral.

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