Raphael
was an Italian painter and architect of the Italian High
Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and
for his large figure compositions in the Vatican in Rome.
His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of
composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic
ideal of human grandeur.
Raphael's father was a painter, so he encouraged Raphael
to paint at an early age. He also was trained by Timoteo
Vinti, whose influence led him to paint one of his most
famous works, The Knight's Dream. In 1499 he went to Perugia,
in Umbria, and became a student and assistant of the painter
Perugino. He followed Perugino's style so closely that
historians are often confused as to which painting were
done by which one of them.
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