Raphael Research Paper

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, otherwise known as Raphael was an Italian painter and an

Architect of the great high renaissance. His work is worshiped for its clarity of form and

Ease of Composition with visual Achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human style he

Was born in 1483 in Urbino, Italy that he had a pretty disoriented and hard working

Childhood. His mother Magia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight. His father also died

Right after Magia on August 1, 1494, who already got remarried. Raphael was then

Orphaned at the Age of 11 his only guardian became his only paternal uncle

Bartolommeo, a priest, who then right after his parent’s death engaged in litigation with

Raphael's stepmother. He continued to live with his stepmother when he is not

Frescos In Perugia Of about 1506 show a new and monumental quality in the

Figures which Represent Fra Bartolommeo, whom Vasari says was a Great friend of

Raphael's. But the Greatest influence of the work of Art in those years was Leonardo da

Vinci, who returned it to the city from 1500 through 1506. Raphael's figure, which began

To take more Dynamic and complex positions, and even though his painted subjects were

Still mostly Peaceful, he made a drawn of studies of fighting nude men, which at the time

Was the Obsession in Florence. Another dreaming was a portrait of a young woman that

Uses the Three-quarter length pyramidal composition of the just completed Mona Lisa.

Raphael Also perfects his own version of Leonardo's sfumato Modeling, to give subtlety

To his Painting of flesh and beauty. Leonardo was more than 30 years older then

Raphael, But Michelangelo, who was in Rome during this time, was just eight Years his

Senior. Michelangelo disliked Leonardo, and in Rome have come to dislike Raphael