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He was enormously prolific. Despite his early death at 37, a large body of work remains, especially in the Vatican, where Raphael and a large team of assistants, executing his drawings under his direction, frescoed the Raphael Rooms known as the Stanze. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, but after his death the influence of his rival ...
The work is one of the earliest known paintings by the artist, executed between 1499 and 1502. It is probably a piece of an unknown predella , though it has been suggested that the painting could be one of the remaining works of the Baronci Altarpiece , Raphael's first recorded commission (seriously damaged by an earthquake in 1789, fragments ...
A copy of Raphael's School of Athens was painted on the wall of the ceremonial stairwell that leads to the famous, main-floor reading room of the Sainte-Geneviève Library in Paris. The two figures to the left of Plotinus were used as part of the cover art of both Use Your Illusion I and II albums of Guns N' Roses.
Raphael did not paint any of the main events of the story. He chose the scene of the nymph's apotheosis ( Stanze , I, 118–119). Galatea appears surrounded by other sea creatures whose forms are somewhat inspired by Michelangelo , [ 2 ] whereas the bright colors and decoration are supposed to be inspired by ancient Roman painting.
Although Raphael was heavily inspired by Perugino in painting the piece, differences between the two were remarked upon, within decades of the painting's completion, by 16th-century Italian artist and art biographer Giorgio Vasari, who said that in the piece "may be distinctly seen the progress of excellence of Raphael's style, which becomes ...
During his Florentine period, Raphael painted The Madonna Del Cardellino along with several other well-known Madonnas: The Madonna of the Meadow and La belle jardinière. All three share several characteristics: Madonna is clothed in red and blue, the same three subjects are painted, the pyramidal composition, the natural background, and the ...
It is an Italian Renaissance painting, influenced by Michelangelo's work on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Isaiah, a powerful figure, gives the illusion of a three-dimensional character, flanked by putti figures. He carries a scroll inscribed with a supplication in Hebrew for entry into Heaven (Isaiah XXVI:2–3). [1]
The Saint Cecilia Altarpiece is an oil painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael.Completed in his later years, in around 1516–1517, the painting depicts Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians and Church music, listening to a choir of angels in the company of Saints Paul, John the Evangelist, Augustine and Mary Magdalene.