Raphael Famous Paintings and Painters from around the world Raphael Famous Paintings and Painters from around the world Raphael - RAFFAELLO SANZIO born April 6, 1483, Urbino, Italy died April 6, 1520, Rome, Italy

[ Paul Cezanne ] [ John Constable ] [ Leonardo da Vinci ] [ Henri Matisse ] [ Michelangelo ] [ Raphael ] [ William Turner ] [ Vincent van Gogh ] [ William Blake ] [ Main Index ] Full name RAFFAELLO SANZIO, master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican in Rome. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Raphael is one of the most acute of all portraitists, effortlessly cleaving through the external defences of his sitter, yet courteously colluding with whatever image the ego would seek to have portrayed. This duality, looking beneath the surface and yet remaining wholly respectful of the surface, gives an additional layer of meaning to all his portraits. Raphael's life was short, but while he lived he was one of those geniuses who continually evolve and develop. He had an extraordinary capacity (like, though greater than, Picasso's) to respond to every movement in the art world, and to subsume it within his own work. Raphael's greatest paintings seem so effortless that one does not usually connect them with the idea of hard and relentless work. To many he is simply the painter of sweet Madonnas which have become so well known as hardly to be appreciated as paintings any more.   The small Cowper Madonna 1505   The nymph Galatea 1512-14       Madonna dell Granduca 1505   Maddalena       St. George Fighting the Dragon 1505   St. George Fighting the Dragon 1504-06 The following Raphael Fine Art Prints are available to buy, framing service is available. Please click on the image for more infomation. Sistine Madonna, 1513-14 (Detail) Raphael The School of Athens, 1510-1511 Raphael Saint Catherine of Alexandria Raphael Ansidei Madonna Raphael Madonna Della Sedia Raphael The Madonna Di Foligno Raphael An Allegory (Vision of a Knight) Raphael The Triumph of Galatea, C.1511 (Detail) Raphael Cherubino Raphael Madonna with the Child Jesus Raphael Justice Raphael Renaissance Oculus II Raphael Ora Terza Di Giorno Raphael Ora Seconda Di Giorno Raphael Ora Prima Di Giorno Raphael Ora Quarta Di Giorno Raphael [ Paul Cezanne ] [ John Constable ] [ Leonardo da Vinci ] [ Henri Matisse ] [ Michelangelo ] [ Raphael ] [ William Turner ] [ Vincent van Gogh ] [ William Blake ] [ Main Index ] Compiled by Steve Dawson for fun!