Rafaello Santio
(1483, Urbino - 1520, Rome)


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He is called a painter of Madonna. He constantly reproduced the Virgin and Child. "It was the family group that interested him and he pains them as splendid, healthy human beings, but with a serenity of expression, a sense of some deep inner integrity, that removes any doubt as to the holiness of the subject." <The Oxford Companion of Art>

1483 Born in Urbino where the court of Federico of Montepeltro supported Italian culture.
Trained by his father, Giovani Santi, a provincial painter, Umbrian style, who died when Raphaello was 11.
Studied with Timoteo Viti at Urbino - delicacy and poetic atmosphere
1499 Went to Perugia
Became a student and assistant of Perugino
perspective, geometrical composition
Sposalizio, Crucified Christ with Virgin Mary, Saints and Angels
1504 Moved to Florence
Learned the work of Leonardo,Michelangelo and Fra Bartolommeo
Light and shade, anatomy, dramatic action, animated, informal
1504-05 Madonna del Granduca, Pitti Palace, Florence - Umbrian style
La Belle Jardiniere, Madonna of the Goldfinch - Leonardo style(serenity)
Madonna del Baldacchino - Fra Bartolommeo style
Entombment of Christ - Michelangelo style(postures and anatomical development of the figures
1508- Although he was only 25, he had such a reputation to be summoned to Rome by Pope Julius II.
Frescos in four small stanze of the Vatican Palace
He was commissioned so many that he had to employ many pupils and assistants.
1511-12 Portrait of Julius II
1513 Triumph of Galatea, Villa Farnesina
1514 Chief architect of Saint Peter's Basilica
1515 Director of all the excavations of antiquities in and near Rome
Designed ten tapestries for the Sistine Chapel
Devised the architecture and decorations of the Chigi Chapel in Church of Santa Maria del Popolo
1517-1520 Transfiguration, Vatican
1520 Died in Rome. Age 37. Buried in Pantheon.
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