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Raphael was born at Urbino, a most important city of Italy, in 1483, on Good Friday, at three in the morning. His parents were Giovanni de Santi and Magia di Battista Ciarla; his mother died in 1491. Giovanni de Santi, a painter himself, gave his son his first instruction in painting, and, before his death in 1494, when Raphael was 11, he had introduced the boy to humanistic philosophy at the court. At the age of seventeen, his father sent him to Perugia to become an apprentice under the highly regarded Perugino. In the four years he spent with Perugino's, Raphael learned all that his master could teach him, and the period passed without problems or challenges. In his early works, Raphael remained faithful to the Perugino School. Raphael had such extraordinary talent right from the beginning and was an innate absorber of influences. Whatever he sa
Raphael spent the last 12 years of his short life in Rome. Raphael died on his 37th birthday. His funeral mass was celebrated at the Vatican, his Transfiguration was placed at the head of the bier, and his body was buried in the Pantheon in Rome. Pope Julius II summoned Raphael to Rome in 1508 where he was employed to complete the fresco decoration of a number of rooms in the Vatican. The best known of these works is The School of Athens, a majestic piece that glorifies the philosophers of antiquity. After completing the second room, in 1514 Raphael was in such demand that assistants completed much of his work from then on. There are some exceptions however including portraits like that of Baldassare Castiglione (1514/15). This individual piece alone has been admired by many artists. Titian, it is believed, was deeply influenced after seeing this piece on display in the house of the s
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School Athens,
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Raffaello Sanzio,
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