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Raphael
Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)
This article is about the Italian Renaissance painter and architect.
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For other uses, see Raphael (disambiguation).
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino[a] (Italian:[raffaˈɛlloˈsantsjodaurˈbiːno]; March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520),[2][b] now generally known in English as Raphael (RAF-ay-əl, RAF-ee-əl, RAY-fee-, RAH-fy-EL),[4] was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.[5] Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.[6]
His father was court painter to the ruler of the small but highly cultured city of Urbino.
He died when Raphael was eleven, and Raphael seems to have played a role in managing the family workshop from this p
