Raphael And Raffaelel Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio, more commonly known as Raphael, was born to his mother and father on April 6, 1483. He was born in the town of Urbino in Italy. Raphael’s father worked as a court painter under the Duke of Urbino. Raphael often helped his father paint some paintings for the court. Being around and growing up around the court as much as he did, Raphael was introduced to practicing proper manners and to new social skills. His mother passed away when he was eight years old and even though his father remarried, he passed away four years later. The passing of Raphael’s parents left him orphaned and living with his uncle, who was a priest. While living with his uncle, Raphael showed the talent that he had learned while helping his father at the Duke’s court. Around the age of fifteen or sixteen, Raphael did a self-portrait, which is the earliest known example of his work (Raphael Sanzio, 2012).

Raphael then started working under the Umbrian master, Pietro Perugino. It was around 1508 that Raphael went to Rome and live there for most of the rest of his life. While in Rome, he was commissioned to do a number of pieces for the Pope. Raphael was supposed to marry a woman by the name of Maria Bibbiena, who he was engaged to, however he never had the chance. There are a few possible reasons as to why the two never married, but nothing is for sure. He did, however, have a mistress that eventually played a role in his death. Raphael passed away at the age of thirty-seven, and oddly enough, he passed away on the exact date of his thirty-seventh birthday (Raphael Sanzio, 2012). There is no doubt that Raphael Sanzio lived a fairly full life, even though it was cut short. His life was full of doing what he loved and loving what he did. He enj...

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...nent affair with Margherita Luti may just have played a role in his death (Raphael Biography, 2014). It is said that Raphael had a night of excessive sex with this mistress, Luti, and later fell into an intense fever. The doctors gave him the wrong cure causing his death (Raphael Sanzio, 2012).

Before his death, Raphael was able to receive his last rites and he got all his affairs in order. He was able to dictate his will and left funds for the care of his mistress and also left most of what he had left of his studio contents to Giulio Romano and Penni. Raphael’s funeral, at the Pantheon per his request, was very grand and many people attended (Raphael Biography, 2014). Written on his sarcophagus, or casket, was “Here lies that famous Raphael by whom nature feared to be conquered while he lived, and when he was dying, feared herself to die” (Raphael Sanzio, 2012).