Rafael Santi

there is so much grace, diligence, beauty, modesty and good morals that they would be enough to excuse all vices, no matter how shameful they might be. Throughout his life, he never ceased to be the best example of how we should treat both equal and superior and inferior people. Among all his rare qualities, one thing surprises me: heaven has endowed him with the ability to behave differently than is customary among our brotherhood of artists; among all the artists who worked under Raphael... there was such agreement that every evil thought disappeared at the sight of him, and such agreement existed only with him. This was due to the fact that they all felt the superiority of his affectionate character and talent, but mainly due to his beautiful nature, always so attentive and so infinitely generous in mercy that people and animals felt affection for him...
Date and place of birth: 1483, Urbino, Italy
Date and place of death: April 6, 1520, Rome, Italy
Series: Sketches by Raphael, Frescoes by Raphael in Stanzas, Portrait of Pope Julius II
In his works, Raphael embodied the idea of the sublime ideals of Renaissance humanism, having managed to combine eternal, dating back to antiquity, ideas about beauty and a new Christian worldview. His painting "Sistine Madonna" is one of the most recognizable in history.; she was the inspiration and favorite canvas of the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky
Raphael was an extraordinarily productive artist, led a large workshop and left behind many works. His work naturally falls into three stages and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: the early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504-1508), embodying the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last triumphant twelve years of work in Rome under two popes: Julius II and Leo X (1508-1520). Rafael Santi lost his parents early. Mother, Margie Charla, died in 1491. His father, Giovanni Santi, was an artist and poet at the court of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, he died in 1494, having