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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino [a] (Italian: [raffaˈɛllo ˈsantsjo da urˈbiːno]; March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520), [2] [b] now generally known in English as Raphael (UK: / ˈ r æ f eɪ. ə l / RAF-ay-əl, US: / ˈ r æ f i. ə l, ˈ r eɪ f i-, ˌ r ɑː f aɪ ˈ ɛ l / RAF-ee-əl, RAY-fee-, RAH-fy-EL), [4] was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
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 ...
The Madonna della Sedia is Raphael's most humanistic form of the Madonna. [2] Throughout Raphael's life, this humanistic representation of the Madonna occupied his mind. The Madonna della Sedia is the incarnation of a realistic mother and child, representing human motherhood. [3]
A potential revival of the classic NBC comedy The Facts of Life was effectively sabotaged by a “greedy” co-star who quietly tried to set up her own spinoff, says Mindy Cohn. During a recent ...
The Procession to Calvary (Raphael) [Wikidata] National Gallery, London, United Kingdom: Oil on panel 24,4 x 85,5 1504–1505 Madonna del Granduca: Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy: Oil on panel 84,4 x 55,9 1505: Ansidei Madonna: National Gallery, London, United Kingdom: Oil on panel 216,8 x 147,6 1505: Saint John the Baptist Preaching (Raphael ...
The Facts of Life aired for nine seasons, becoming one of the longest-running sitcoms of the '80s. Before the series came to an end in 1988, the story of boarding school housemother Edna Garrett ...
Raphael was commissioned by Guidobaldo da Montefeltro in 1505 to paint a picture for Henry VII; Castiglione traveled to England to present the finished painting to the king. [1] It is possible that Castiglione later served as a "scholarly advisor" for Raphael's The School of Athens , and that the depiction of Zoroaster in that fresco may be a ...
St. George and the Dragon is a small oil on wood cabinet painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael, painted c. 1505, and now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The saint wears the blue garter of the English Order of the Garter , reflecting the award of this decoration in 1504 to Raphael's patron Guidobaldo da ...