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Article: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio; 1483–1520)
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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RAPHAEL (Raffaello Sanzio; 1483
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1520)
RAPHAEL
(Raffaello Sanzio; 1483
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1520), Italian painter and architect. The importance of the sixteenth-century artist Raffaello Sanzio to the subsequent development of European culture can be gauged by the fact that only three Italian artists were ever glorified by receiving anglicized versions of their names: Raphael, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), and "Michael Angelo" Buonarroti. Raphael's father, Giovanni Santi, worked as a court painter to the duke of Urbino; his colorful style owed a great deal to the area's lush, hilly landscape and to the spiritual legacy of St. Francis, whose native Assisi bordered Urbino. Giovanni Santi also ...