Art · 1483–1520
Born: 28 March 1483 · Died: 6 April 1520 · Age at death: 37
Raphael died aged 37. He was born on 28 March 1483 and died on 6 April 1520.
Italian High Renaissance painter of serene Madonnas and The School of Athens, one of the great masters alongside Leonardo and Michelangelo
Did you know?He was a prolific architect who worked on the design for St Peter's Basilica in Rome.
Raphael is the artist most associated with harmony, grace and balance in the High Renaissance. He worked alongside the giants Leonardo and Michelangelo, absorbing ideas from both while developing his own calm, elegant style. His fresco The School of Athens, in the Vatican, brings together the great thinkers of ancient Greece in a single grand space. His gentle Madonnas became models for religious painting for centuries. He died at just 37, yet produced such a large and influential body of work that he shaped European art for generations.
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian:; March 28 or 6 April 1483 – 6 April 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael (UK: RAF-ay-əl, US: RAF-ee-əl, RAY-fee-, RAH-fy-EL), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
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Italian painter, born 1483
Raphael was born in Urbino on 28 March 1483.
He painted The School of Athens in the Vatican.
He was chief architect of St Peter's.
He died on his 37th birthday.
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Did you know?He was buried in the Pantheon in Rome.
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