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This can be seen in the fourth Vatican room the room of Constantine. Raffaello died at the age of 37, on 6th Aprile , the day of his birthday. Fonti Raffaello, lettera a B. Raffaello, lettera a Leone X Essendo io stato assai studioso di queste tali antiquitati et havendo posto non picciola cura in cercarle minutamente et misurarle con diligentia, et leggendo continuo li buoni auctori et conferendo l'opera con le lor scripture, penso haver conseguito qualche notitia di quell'antica architectura.

It presents an overview of the main artistic periods and some of the biographies of the most illustrious artists in the history of Italian art. Periods The main artistic movements in chronological order. Artists biographies Biographies of some of the greatest representatives of Italian art. Monuments Some of the most beautiful and representative monuments and works of Italian art.

Periods Byzantine art. At the time, Urbino was a cultural center that encouraged the Arts. In , when Raphael was just 11 years old, Giovanni died. As a teen, he was even commissioned to paint for the Church of San Nicola in the neighboring town of Castello. In , a master painter named Pietro Vannunci, otherwise known as Perugino, invited Raphael to become his apprentice in Perugia, in the Umbria region of central Italy.

In Perugia, Perugino was working on frescoes at the Collegio del Cambia. The apprenticeship lasted four years and provided Raphael with the opportunity to gain both knowledge and hands-on experience. In , Raphael left his apprenticeship with Perugino and moved to Florence, where he was heavily influenced by the works of the Italian painters Fra Bartolommeo, Leonardo da Vinci , Michelangelo and Masaccio.

To Raphael, these innovative artists had achieved a whole new level of depth in their composition. By closely studying the details of their work, Raphael managed to develop an even more intricate and expressive personal style than was evident in his earlier paintings. From through , Raphael produced a series of "Madonnas," which extrapolated on da Vinci's works.

Nicholas of Tolentino in He visited Sienna with another Perugino assistant, Pinturicchio. They worked on a fresco series together at the Piccolomini Library and Sienna Cathedral. From there, he traveled to Florentine, from Michelangelo hated Raphael, and thought that he was conspiring against him. For some reason, when Raphael was in Florentine, he was obsessed with drawing naked fighting men.

But nothing ever came out of it; just a lot of drawings. In , he went to Rome, and lived there the rest of his life. There were four frescoes altogether: philosophy, law, poetry, and theology. The most well known is The School of Athens , which represents Philosophy. Many well-known people are portrayed, including Michelangelo. In the center is Plato and Aristotle, Athena is on the right, Michelangelo is the brooding, crouching figure in the front.

This work portrays the Renaissance as the new classical age. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in and finished in ; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain.

In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the "Mond Crucifixion" about and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin , and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshalls his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino.

He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral.

He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about However, although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period" of about , he was certainly never a continuous resident there.

He may have needed to visit the city to secure materials in any case. There is a letter of recommendation of Raphael, dated October , from the mother of the next Duke of Urbino to the Gonfaloniere of Florence: "The bearer of this will be found to be Raphael, painter of Urbino, who, being greatly gifted in his profession has determined to spend some time in Florence to study.

And because his father was most worthy and I was very attached to him, and the son is a sensible and well-mannered young man, on both accounts, I bear him great love As earlier with Perugino and others, Raphael was able to assimilate the influence of Florentine art, whilst keeping his own developing style. Frescos in Perugia of about show a new monumental quality in the figures which may represent the influence of Fra Bartolomeo, who Vasari says was a friend of Raphael.

But the most striking influence in the work of these years is Leonardo da Vinci, who returned to the city from to Raphael's figures begin to take more dynamic and complex positions, and though as yet his painted subjects are still mostly tranquil, he made drawn studies of fighting nude men, one of the obsessions of the period in Florence. Another drawing is a portrait of a young woman that uses the three-quarter length pyramidal composition of the just-completed "Mona Lisa", but still looks completely Raphaelesque.

Another of Leonardo's compositional inventions, the pyramidal Holy Family, was repeated in a series of works that remain among his most famous easel paintings. There is a drawing by Raphael in the Royal Collection of Leonardo's lost Leda and the Swan, from which he adapted the contrapposto pose of his own Saint Catherine of Alexandria. He also perfects his own version of Leonardo's sfumato modelling, to give subtlety to his painting of flesh, and develops the interplay of glances between his groups, which are much less enigmatic than those of Leonardo.

But he keeps the soft clear light of Perugino in his paintings. Leonardo was more than thirty years older than Raphael, but Michelangelo, who was in Rome for this period, was just eight years his senior. Michelangelo already disliked Leonardo, and in Rome came to dislike Raphael even more, attributing conspiracies against him to the younger man.

Raphael would have been aware of his works in Florence, but in his most original work of these years, he strikes out in a different direction. His Deposition of Christ draws on classical sarcophagi to spread the figures across the front of the picture space in a complex and not wholly successful arrangement.

Ascensione raffaello sanzio biography

Though highly regarded at the time, and much later forcibly removed from Perugia by the Borghese, it stands rather alone in Raphael's work. His classicism would later take a less literal direction. By the end of , he had moved to Rome, where he lived for the rest of his life. Peter's, who came from just outside Urbino and was distantly related to Raphael.

Unlike Michelangelo, who had been kept hanging around in Rome for several months after his first summons, Raphael was immediately commissioned by Julius to fresco what was intended to become the Pope's private library at the Vatican Palace. This was a much larger and more important commission than any he had received before; he had only painted one altarpiece in Florence itself.

Several other artists and their teams of assistants were already at work on different rooms, many painting over recently completed paintings commissioned by Julius's loathed predecessor, Alexander VI, whose contributions, and arms, Julius was determined to efface from the palace. Michelangelo, meanwhile, had been commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

This first of the famous "Stanze" or "Raphael Rooms" to be painted, now always known as the Stanza della Segnatura after its use in Vasari's time, was to make a stunning impact on Roman art, and remains generally regarded as his greatest masterpiece, containing The School of Athens, The Parnassus and the Disputa. Raphael was then given further rooms to paint, displacing other artists including Perugino and Signorelli.

He completed a sequence of three rooms, each with paintings on each wall and often the ceilings too, increasingly leaving the work of painting from his detailed drawings to the large and skilled workshop team he had acquired, who added a fourth room, probably only including some elements designed by Raphael, after his early death in The death of Julius in did not interrupt the work at all, as he was succeeded by Raphael's last Pope, the Medici Pope Leo X, with whom Raphael also got on very well, and who continued to commission him.

Raphael was clearly influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling in the course of painting the room. Vasari said Bramante let him in secretly, and the scaffolding was taken down in from the first completed section.