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Raphael died on Good Friday, April 6, 1520, which was possibly his 37th birthday. [e] Vasari says that Raphael had also been born on a Good Friday, which in 1483 fell on March 28, [f] and that the artist died from exhaustion brought on by unceasing romantic interests while he was working on the Loggia. [92]
Raphael (UK: / ˈ r æ f eɪ ə l / RAF-ay-əl, US: / ˈ r æ f i ə l, ˈ r eɪ f-/ RA(Y)F-ee-əl; "God has healed") [a] is an archangel first mentioned in the Book of Tobit and in 1 Enoch, both estimated to date from between the 3rd and 2nd century BCE.
Raphael of Lesbos (died 1463), Eastern Orthodox saint, ... Polish saint in the Discalced Carmelite Order; Raphael Koster (born 1971), American game designer;
In the Catholic Church, three archangels are mentioned by name in its Biblical canon: Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. Raphael appears in the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit, where he is described as "one of the seven angels who stand ready and enter before the glory of the lord of spirits", [17] a phrase recalled in Revelation 8:2–6.
Raphael's father was Giovanni Santi, who was also a painter as well as a poet. Due to this fact, Raphael had certain connections with patrons throughout his career which helped his fame. Considered a favorite of Pope Julius II, Raphael held a celebrity status in Rome from 1509 to 1520. [6] The artist died at the very young age of 37 due to a fever.
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 ...
Titian, The Archangel Raphael and Tobias (c. 1512−1514). Tobias and the Angel is the traditional title of depictions in art of a passage from the Book of Tobit in which Tobias, son of Tobit, travels with the Archangel Raphael without realising he is an angel (5.5–6) and is then instructed by Raphael what to do with a giant fish he catches (6.2–9).
Born as subject of the Umayyad Caliphate; the last pope from Syria. The third pope to come from a Muslim country. The third pope to bear the same name as his immediate predecessor. Last pope to have been born outside Europe until the election of Francis in 2013. 91 3 December 741 – 22 March 752 (10 years, 110 days) St Zachary ZACHARIAS: Zacharias