Raphael - Volume 1

Intro; Raphael in Urbino, Perugia, and Siena; Drawings 1483-1503; Raphael in Florence; Drawings 1504-1507; Raphael in Rome under Julius II; Drawings 1508-1512; Raphael in Rome under Leo X; Drawings 1513-1515; Raphael the Architect and His Final Years; Drawings 1516-1520; Notes; List of Illustrations. Raphael (1483-1520), the Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, was a genius in and ahead of his time. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he formed the classical trinity of this era and elaborated a rich style of harmony and geometry. As one of the great masters of the Renaissance and artist to European royalty and the Papal court in Rome, his works comprise various themes of theology and philosophy, including but not limited to famous illustrations of the Madonna. His surroundings and experience gave rise to his propensity to combine the ideals of humanism with those of religion, and firmly established in him a conviction that art is a necessary medium to reveal the beauty of nature.