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Posted by Tel Asiado Apr 6, 2008 |
Great Thinkers Datebook: April 6.
(Raffaello "Raphael" Santi or Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520), is an Italian painter known for his frescoes.
Raphael was influential in establishing the standards of the High Renaissance style, along with the other two older major artists that also influenced him: da Vinci and Michelangelo. Raphael merged the poetic and the dramatic, to achieve a personal and unique power evidenced in his early work "Madonna del Granduca."
While Michelangelo worked on the Sistine Chapel, Raphael executed a series of frescoes on the walls and ceiling of the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican Palace, a commission he received from Julius II.
Raphael's "School of Athens" is considered his masterpiece.
Here's a brief biography of Raffaello "Raphael" Santi
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