Raphael The Madonna of Foligno Painting ID:: 3316 Raphael35.jpg
The Madonna of Foligno 1511-12
The Vatican
Raphael The Transfiguration Painting ID:: 3317 Raphael36.jpg
The Transfiguration The Vatican
Raphael The Transfiguration Painting ID:: 3318 Raphael37.jpg
The Transfiguration The Vatican
Raphael The Prophet Isaiah Painting ID:: 3319 Raphael38.jpg
The Prophet Isaiah 1511-12
Church of Sant'Agostino, Rome
Raphael The Fire in the Borgo Painting ID:: 3320 Raphael39.jpg
The Fire in the Borgo Fresco
The Vatican
Raphael The School of Athens Painting ID:: 3321 Raphael40.jpg
The School of Athens 1510-11 Fresco
The Vatican
Raphael The School of Athens Painting ID:: 3322 Raphael41.jpg
The School of Athens 1510-11 Fresco
The Vatican
Raphael La Donna Velata Painting ID:: 3323 Raphael42.jpg
La Donna Velata Galleria Palatina, Florence
Raphael The Sistine Madonna Painting ID:: 3324 Raphael43.jpg
The Sistine Madonna 1513-14
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden
Raphael Madonna del Baldacchino Painting ID:: 3325 Raphael44.jpg
Madonna del Baldacchino 1507
Galleria Palatina, Florence
Raphael Detail from the Saint Nicholas Altarpiece Painting ID:: 3326 Raphael45.jpg
Detail from the Saint Nicholas Altarpiece 1500-01
Pinacoteca Civica Tosio Martinengo, Brescia
Raphael Saint Michael Trampling the Dragon Painting ID:: 3327 Raphael46.jpg
Saint Michael Trampling the Dragon 1518
Musee du Louvre, Paris
Raphael Christ on the Cross with the Virgin, Saint Jerome, Mary Magdalene and John the Baptist Painting ID:: 3328 Raphael47.jpg
Christ on the Cross with the Virgin, Saint Jerome, Mary Magdalene and John the Baptist 1502
The National Gallery, London
Raphael Altarpiece of St.Nicholas of Tolentino Painting ID:: 3329 Raphael48.jpg
Altarpiece of St.Nicholas of Tolentino 1501
Musee du Louvre, Paris
Raphael THE MADONNA OF THE CHAIR or Madonna della Sedia Painting ID:: 3330 Raphael49.jpg
THE MADONNA OF THE CHAIR or Madonna della Sedia
Raphael The Fornarina Painting ID:: 3331 Raphael50.jpg
The Fornarina 1516
Rome Galleria Nazionale
Raphael John the Baptist (mk05) Painting ID:: 20108 new5/Raphael-356459.jpg
John the Baptist (mk05) Canvas 53 1/4 x 56''(135 x 142 cm)Given to Louis Xiv by the Marquis de la Feuillade in 1685 given to the Church of Longpoint in 1820;reclaimed for the Louvre in 1838
Baldassare Castiglione (mk05) Before 1516 Canvas,32 1/4 x 26 1/2''(82 x 67 cm)Acquired by Louis Xiv from the heirs of Cardinal Mazarin in 1661
Raphael Portrait of the Artist with a Friend (mk05) Painting ID:: 20111 new5/Raphael-453935.jpg
Portrait of the Artist with a Friend (mk05) Wood 39 x 32 1/2''(99 x 83 cm)In the collection of Cardinal Granvelle as by Pordenone by 1607;at Fontainebleau as by Raphael by 1625;later in the collection of Louis XiV
Raphael George Fighting the Dragon (mk05) Painting ID:: 20112 new5/Raphael-639644.jpg
George Fighting the Dragon (mk05) 1505Wood,12 x 10 1/4\'\'(30 x 26 cm)Formed with st Michael a diptych;acquired by Louis XIV from the heirs of Cardinal Mazarin in 1661
Raphael La Belle Jandiniere (mk05) Painting ID:: 20113 new5/Raphael-366536.jpg
La Belle Jandiniere (mk05) virgin and child with the Infant st.john the Baptist in a Landscape 1507
Wood 48 x 311/2\'\'(68 x 49 cm.Perhaps from the collection of Francois in the collection of Louis XIVbefore 1683
Raphael The Virgin with the Veil (mk05) Painting ID:: 20114 new5/Raphael-828729.jpg
The Virgin with the Veil (mk05) Wood 27 x 19 1/4''(68 x 49 cm)Acquired by Louis XV from the collection of the Prince of Cavignan in 1743
Raphael The Holy Family,known as the Great Holy Family of Francois I (mk05) Painting ID:: 20181 new5/Raphael-845757.jpg
The Holy Family,known as the Great Holy Family of Francois I (mk05) Canvas 81 1/2 x 55''(207 x 140 cm).Commissioned as a gift to the Queen of France;collections of Francois I and Louis XIV
Raphael Michael Victorious,Known as the Great Michael (mk05) Painting ID:: 20182 new5/Raphael-966255.jpg
Michael Victorious,Known as the Great Michael (mk05) 1518
Canvas,105 1/2 x 63''(268 x 160 cm).Commissioned for poresentation to Francois I;collection of Louis XIV
Raphael The Holy Family Known as the Little Holy Family (mk05) Painting ID:: 20186 new5/Raphael-489784.jpg
The Holy Family Known as the Little Holy Family (mk05) Wood,15 1/4 x 12''(39 x 30 cm).Acquired in 1662-1666for the collection of Louis XIV
Raphael Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de'Medici (mk08) Painting ID:: 21279 new6/Raphael-298527.jpg
Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de'Medici (mk08) 1518*19
Oil on wood
154x119cm
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi
Raphael Madonna of the Meadows (mk08) Painting ID:: 21307 new6/Raphael-527464.jpg
Madonna of the Meadows (mk08) 1505/06
Oil tempera on wood
113x88cm
Vienna,Kunsthistorisches Museum
Raphael Marriage of the Virgin (mk08) Painting ID:: 21310 new6/Raphael-723354.jpg
Marriage of the Virgin (mk08) 1504
Oil tempera on wood
170x117cm
Milan,Pinacoteca di Brera
Italian High Renaissance Painter, 1483-1520
Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone (in Italian Raffaello) (April 6 or March 28, 1483 ?C April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.
Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop, and, despite his early death at thirty-seven, a large body of his work remains, especially in the Vatican, whose frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career, although unfinished at his death. After his early years in Rome, much of his work was designed by him and executed largely by the workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models.
His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (from 1504-1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates.