raphael

RAPHAEL , also known as Raffaello Sanzio , was a great Italian painter . He was born in the small town of Urbino, an artistic centre, and received his earliest training from his father. Later, his father sent him to Pietro Perugino , who was an artist of considerable gifts.
RAPHAEL painted what would be acceptable, not what he felt to be true, and this may account for the lack of real emotive impact.
HE spent his first sojourn in Florence (1504-08) to sublime purpose. At that time Leonardo and Michelangelo were both working there, and as a result Raphael adopted new working methods and techniques--particularly influenced by Leonardo--and his paintings took on a more vigorous graphic energy.
RAPHAEL's life was short, but while he lived he was one of those geniuses who continually evolve and develop. He had an extraordinary capacity to respond to every movement in the art world, and to subsume it within his own work.