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Raphael

1483 - 1520

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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian: [raffaˈɛllo ˈsantsjo da urˈbiːno]; March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael (UK: RAF-ay-əl, US: RAF-ee-əl, RAY-fee-, RAH-fy-EL), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. His father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the ruler of the small but highly cultured city of Urbino. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raphael is the 4th most popular painter, the 11th most popular biography from Italy (down from 10th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Painter.

Raphael is most famous for his paintings of the Madonna and Child.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Raphael ranks 4 out of 2,023Before him are Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, and Pablo Picasso. After him are Rembrandt, Salvador Dalí, Albrecht Dürer, Frida Kahlo, Claude Monet, Peter Paul Rubens, Caravaggio, and Francisco Goya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1483, Raphael ranks 2Before him is Martin Luther. After him are Babur, Francesco Guicciardini, Francisco de Vitoria, Ayas Mehmed Pasha, Paolo Giovio, Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, Felice della Rovere, Gasparo Contarini, Jaime, Duke of Braganza, and Simon Bening. Among people deceased in 1520, Raphael ranks 1After him are Selim I, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Moctezuma II, Martin Waldseemüller, Pier Gerlofs Donia, Cuitláhuac, Sten Sture the Younger, Kunigunde of Austria, Agostino Chigi, Ravidas, and Ippolito d'Este.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Raphael ranks 11 out of 5,161Before him are Julius Caesar (-100), Michelangelo (1475), Archimedes (-287), Dante Alighieri (1265), Augustus (-63), and Antonio Vivaldi (1678). After him are Niccolò Machiavelli (1469), Pope John Paul I (1912), Commodus (161), Fibonacci (1170), Giuseppe Verdi (1813), and Thomas Aquinas (1225).

Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Raphael ranks 2Before him are Michelangelo (1475). After him are Caravaggio (1571), Sandro Botticelli (1445), Giotto (1267), Donatello (1386), Titian (1488), Amedeo Modigliani (1884), Masaccio (1401), Tintoretto (1518), Paolo Veronese (1528), and Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526).