Italy
by James E. Donaldson
part of the Italy Travel Series

Raphael


Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop, and despite his death at thirty-seven, a large body of his work remains.