A this time I will tell you more who Raffaello was. But be sure to look at the books in my library.
He was born April 6 or perhaps March 28, 1483 as Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, because he was born in Urbino, a City in the region of the Marche, Italy.
He was known as Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. . He was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. (see particularly the many Madonna and Child faces) Together with Michelangelo Bonarroti and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period .
He was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop or Atelier, and despite his death…show more content… His early years in Umbria, than from 1504-1508 in Florence, than his triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close Associate.
His Father was also a court painter for the Duke of Urbino, Federico III da Montefeltro.
He grow up learning the manners and skill of Italian courts.
His Mother died when he was eight and his father died when he was eleven . His formal guardian was his Uncle Bartolomeo, a priest.
Raffaello had worked as an assistant to Pietro Perugino around 1500.
By 1501 Raffaello is described as a “Master”. He painted work for Churches, some fresco. He worked in Firenze and Siena at the time.
Raffaello figure begins to take more dynamic and complex positions, but still more tranquil. In 1508 he moves to Rome, where he lived the rest of his life. He was invited by Pope Julius II to paint the privat Library at the Vatican Palace . The famous “Stanza Della Segnatura”
At the time Michelangelo (eight years his senior) was painting the Sistine Chapel . He was very jealous of the success of Raffaello and never…show more content… Raffaello received many commission for portrait of famous and influential
Patron. Also made many Cartoon for tapestry send to Brussels to be woven in the workshop of Pier van Aelst. He had a workshop with fifty pupils and assistants, many of whom became significant artist in their own right like Giulio Romano and Gian Francesco Penny (very significant in my story).
After Bramante’s death in 1514 Raffaello was named architect of the new St. Peter. He design several important buildings. In 1515 ha was given powers as “Prefect” over all antiquities unearthed, entrusted within the city of Rome or a mile outside. Raffaello was one of the finest draftsmen in the history of Western art. He made hundreds of drawings, always different on the same subject. When the final composition was achieved scale-up full size cartoon was made, which were pricked with a pin and “pounced” with a bag of soot to leave dotted lines on the surface as a guide. (like the cartoon of the Madonna of Divine Love in the Capo di Monte Museum.)
Raffaello was never a print maker but entered in collaboration with Marcantonio Raimondi to produce engravings from Raffaello design.
(see some of them in our collection of
