Raffaello Sanzio
By: Mark Rutherford R1/S1
Lifetime
Raphael was born on April 6, 1483 in Urbano, Italy. He remained in Urbano until his 17th birthday before moving to Florence for 1504-1508. Then, he moved to Rome in 1508 and remained until he died.
Tutelage
Raphael was taught by father until he was 11. Then, after his father died he was apprenticed to penguino until he was 17. After, he was apprenticed to no one except a master painter, and in the next 4 years he was a junior partner to penguino.
Profession
Raphael was an architect, painter, and artist. He painted many famous works, including Madonna di Loreto, and School of Athens (as pictured below). He was patronized by the Medicis, mainly Pope Leo X, and created many works, not all of them christian. In his fresco School of Athens, he reflects individualism, due to the fact that he painted many famous humans, rather then gods. This also exemplified the feats of the people in the fresco with hand gestures, and everyone has their own individual expression.
Madonna di Loreto
(Madonna Holding a Veil with the Child Waking) Raphael painted this in 1509
Sanzio, Raffaello. ARTstor. Digital image. ARTstor. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
Sanzio, Raffaello. ARTstor. Digital image. ARTstor. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
School of Athens
Commissioned by Pope Leo X, a Medici pope, this fresco was painted by Raphael during 1510-1512 in Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Palace, Vatican State. This famous fresco boasts Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Alexander the Great, Epicurus, Pythagoras, and Euclid. This is an astonishing fresco, not only due to its grandeur, but because it used perspective, something relatively new to the age.
Citations
Biography in context: "Raphael." International Dictionary of Art and Artists. Gale, 1990. Biography in Context. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
"Raphael." Authors and Artists for Young Adults. Vol. 65. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Biography in Context. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
Madonna di Loreto: Sanzio, Raffaello. ARTstor. Digital image. ARTstor. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
School of Athens: Sanzio, Raffaello. ARTstor. Digital image. ARTstor. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.