Monday, 1 April 2013

Raphael

Raphael Small Cowper Madonna
Small Cowper Madonna


Around the same time as Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci, an Italian called Raphael started painting.  He was determined to learn everything he could from them.

He succeeded in becoming one of the most famous portrait painters of all time. 
Detail of The Sistine Madonna

He decorated some rooms in the Vatican at the same time as Michelango was just starting work on the Sistine Chapel.
Raphael Madonna of the Chair
Madonna of the Chair

He didn't base some of his greatest pictures on any particular model but developed in his own mind a picture of what beauty was.

Unfortunately for art, Raphael died on his 37th birthday.  Gone much too soon.


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