Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio of Urbino) (1483-1520)
Creator details
- Name
- Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio of Urbino) (1483-1520)
- Nationality
- Italian
- Biography
- Raffaello Sanzio of Urbino (b. 1483 d. 1520, best known as Raphael, was a significant Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. For centuries, he has been recognised as the supreme Renaissance painter. His work is widely admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. He was a paragon of classicism and he dominated the European painting academy tradition until the mid-19th century.
