Raphael Paintings
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, more commonly known as Raphael, was a master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance period. He is best known for essentially trademarking the “Raphael Madonna” and for his great figure compositions in the Vatican, Rome. His artwork is admired and celebrated for its grace, clarity of form and ease of composition, usually regarded as
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Raphael’s First Commission
In our previous post we examined some of the final paintings in the oeuvre of Raphael Sanzio da Urbino, where it seemed that he was on the verge of a stylistic breakthrough, creating work that was proto-Baroque in manner. Well, heading in the opposite direction, this time we’re going to take a closer look at his earliest works, starting with the first commission that he received as a professional artist.
Raphael’s Final Paintings
For most of his career, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael, utilised a similar style of oil painting as that of his High Renaissance contemporaries such as Leondardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. The Naturalism that evolved early in the Italian Renaissance through the work of the Florentine School, and Mannerism that characterises so much of the da Vinci’s work and Michelangelo’s early work, were both ever present in the oeuvre of Raphael. But towards the end of his career, while he was living in Rome completing commissions such as the Stanza della Segnatura at the Vatican for Pope Julius II and Pope Leo X, he was starting to develop a new style of oil painting that was a departure from his Mannerist roots.
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