Raphael was an Italian painter, printmaker, and architect of the High Renaissance. He was born on April 6, 1483, in Urbino, Italy, where his father was a court painter to the Duke. Raphael’s early interest in painting began with his father who taught him the basics of painting. Urbino...
The genius from Urbino. Raffaelo (Raphael) son of the painter Giovanni Santi and his wife Magia Ciarla was born on the 28th of March or the 6th of April 1483. His father Giovanni Santi was a competent painter and was highly regarded in Urbino, a province that housed one of the most ...
A leading figure of Italian High Renaissance classicism, Raphael is best known for his "Madonnas," including the Sistine Madonna, and for his large figure compositions in the Palace of the Vatican in Rome.
and its culmination with Leonardo, Raphael, and above all Michelangelo, whom Vasari idolized and whose biography was the only one of a living artist to appear in the first edition of his book (the second edition includes accounts of several artists then living, as well as Vasari s own auto...
Juan de Juanes was a Spanish painter, the son of the painter Vicente Macip (c.1475-c.1545), who had almost certainly studied in Italy, and probably in Venice. Juanes painted ideal Counter-Reformation images, based on Leonardo s Last Supper (engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi) and Raphael s ...
a young age. However, although Paris was alive with modernism and movements such as Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism, Balthus showed little interest in these developments. He taught himself painting by copying Renaissance masters like Michelangelo (1475-1564), and Raphael (1486-1520) in the Louv...
His poetry is sometimes irreverent, and all of his work indicates a very imaginative and curious mind. He was very ambitious and had the personality to enable him to achieve important architectural commissions. Bramante was a good friend of the painter Raphael. He helped Raphael plan the ...
History of Philosophy Raphael, The School of Athens, 1509-1511 (Public Domain) History of Philosophy The history of philosophy is closely linked to the emergence of religions and states in antiquity. Many authors agree that the interest in knowledge reached its peak in Greek cities, with a stro...
Reynolds compared the Socrates with Michelangelo s Sistine Ceiling and Raphael s Stanze, and after ten visits to the Salon described it as in every sense perfect . David was in active sympathy with the Revolution; he served on various committees and voted for the execution of Louis XVI. His ...
This style was inspired by Roman pre-Christian architecture and Latin books on moral conduct, as well as by the nobility and greatness of Raphael s works, which, as he believed, had renewed the spirit of antiquity. Painter to Louis XIII Between 1638 and 1639 Poussin s achievements in Rome ...