Raphael (1483-1520)

Urbino 1483 – Rome 1520
He trained as a painter first under his father Giovanni Santi who also introduced his son to the humanist circle of the Montefeltro court in Urbino. From 1495 (?), he continued at the workshop of Pietro Perugino in Perugia who exerted a formative influence upon Raphael’s early style. In 1504-1508, he studied the work of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo in Florence and then settled in Rome where he became an immediate success and earned nick name “prince of painters". He was highly appreciated at the papal court (frescoes at the Vatican) and in Rome’s intellectual and aristocratic circles. From 1514, he supervised the construction of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome and in 1517 was appointed conservateur of antiquities. His portraits display superb psychological insight. Raphael’s profound influence continued well into the 19th century, aided by widely circulating prints after his paintings. The idealism of his religious compositions laid the foundation for Academism.
[Bożena Steinborn]

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