Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino) was a great Italian painter. Son of Giovanni Santi, painter and official poet at the court of Urbino, Raphael loses his parents at the age of 11 years. Fist, he was the apprentice of Perugino but than he left him and moved to Florence. As a teen, he quickly gained important commissions. He painted and designed many astonishing pieces of work inside the Vatican and was a master at using depth and perspective, along light and shadow - the cornerstones of modern day art. He is mostly celebrated for the balanced and harmonious compositions of his "Madonnas," portraits, frescoes and architecture, and is still regarded as the leading artistic figure of Italian High Renaissance classicism.
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino) was a great Italian painter. Son of Giovanni Santi, painter and official poet at the court of Urbino, Raphael loses his parents at the age of 11 years. Fist, he was the apprentice of Perugino but than he left him and moved to Florence. As a teen, he quickly gained important commissions. He painted and designed many astonishing pieces of work inside the Vatican and was a master at using depth and perspective, along light and shadow - the cornerstones of modern day art. He is mostly celebrated for the balanced and harmonious compositions of his "Madonnas," portraits, frescoes and architecture, and is still regarded as the leading artistic figure of Italian High Renaissance classicism.
