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1. www.open.edu › openlearn › ocwGiorgio Vasari, ‘Life of Raphael’ - OpenLearn

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   Giorgio Vasari, ‘Life of Raphael’, from Vasari, G. (1913) Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects (2nd edn, 1568), volume IV: Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo (trans.G.du C. DeVere) [Online].

2. www.open.edu › openlearn › history-the-arts2.2 Vasari and the reception of Raphael - OpenLearn

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   This section will look at how Raphael was constructed as the sixteenth-century epitome of elegance, physical beauty and supreme grace. Vasari’s biography of Raphael. We will begin to examine the formation of Raphael’s identity and its on-going persistence in the present by reading two more or less heroic accounts of his life: an extract ...

3. www.oxfordbibliographies.com › abstract › documentRaphael - Renaissance and Reformation - Oxford Bibliographies

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   Raphael (b. 1483–d. 1520), the son of the painter, writer, and courtier Giovanni Santi, was born at Urbino but achieved his lasting reputation in Rome. Artists, scholars, and the general public have admired his paintings for six centuries.

4. projects.mcah.columbia.edu › arthumanitiesGiorgio Vasari, Life of Raphael - Columbia University

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   Raphael was born at Urbino, a most important city of Italy, in 1483, on Good Fridav at three in the morning, of Giovanni de' Santi, a painter of no great merit, but of good intelligence and well able to show his son

5. britishinstitutehoa.wordpress.com › wp-contentThe Life of Raphael of Urbino, - WordPress.com

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   Raphael (whom he baptized with this name as a sign of good luck) was born, Giovanni insisted that, since he had no other children before or afterwards, Raphael's own mother should nurse him, and that during his tender years he •would be taught how to behave by his parents rather than by the peasants and common folk with their rude and unrefined

6. assets.cambridge.org › 9781107131507_excerptINTRODUCTION - Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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   Raphaelites. Making use of a startlingly simplistic distinction between “medieval” and “modern” art, he situated Raphael’s frescoes in the Stanza della Segnatura at the juncture between them (Cook & Wedderburn eds. 1903 – 12.

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   Who wrote a biography of Raphael?

   • Paolo Giovio, who knew Raphael personally, wrote an essay on the artist’s life shortly after his death in 1520. In 1550, Giorgio Vasari wrote an extended biography of Raphael for his Lives of the Artists, published in 1550 (expanded in 1568).

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   Who was Raphael Santi?

   • Raphael was born at Urbino, a most important city of Italy, in 1483, on Good Fridav at three in the morning, of Giovanni de' Santi, a painter of no great merit, but of good intelligence and well able to show his son the right way, a favour which bad fortune had not granted to himself in his youth.

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   How old was Raphael when he died?

   • Raphael’s untimely death at the age of 37 (in 1520) while at the height of his visual powers only solidified the legend of his extraordinary talent. His visual accomplishments range from paintings of all sizes and drawings in chalk and ink—some intended to be translated to print—to elaborate fresco cycles, tapestry designs, and architecture.

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   Was Raphael a public persona?

   • Despite Raphael’s very public career, we have scant evidence of his personal life, private correspondence, and other writings to reveal the man behind the public persona. Raphael was born in Urbino into the circle of one of the most sophisticated and intellectually oriented courts in Italy.

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   What did Raphael do?

   • Raphael did such things with apparent ease. He embodied the ideal of sprezzatura (the appearance of nonchalant effortlessness in his creative process), a notion popularized by Raphael’s good friend, Baldassare Castiglione, in his Book of the Courtier (1528). How do we know about him?

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   Why is Raphael a famous painter?

   • The young Raphael painted mostly devotional panels of the Madonna and Child, whose gentle beauty and tender charm have made them among his most popular works. His magnificent frescoes in the Vatican papal apartments are the most esteemed and influential of his paintings, inspiring generations of artists from the painter’s era to our own.

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   From his beginnings as a local painter in his native Marche and later Florence, Raphael skyrocketed to fame in Rome, ultimately becoming the city’s most sought-after artist. Raphael’s untimely death at the age of 37 (in 1520) while at the height of his visual powers only solidified the legend of his extraordinary talent.