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RAPHAEL
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- Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520) now generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
- His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
- Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.
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Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his early death at 37, leaving a large body of work. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two popes and their close associates.
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