Self-Portrait1506

Oil on wood, 45 x 33 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Raphael Sanzio

(1483-1520)

The Ansidei Madonna, 1505–1507, Oil on wood, 216.8 cm × 147.6 cm (85.4 in

× 58.1 in) National Gallery, London

• Raphael’s father taught him the basics of painting.

• He was orphaned at eleven.

• He apprenticed with Umbirian master Pietro Perugino.

• By the age of 17, Raphael was rated an indepenent master.

Saint George and the Dragon, c. 1506, oil on panel, National Gallery of Art, Andrew W. Mellon Collection

• Raphael skillfully used oil paints, an invention that changed the history of art

• Early artists had used egg tempera paint.

• In the early 1400s artists in northern Europe developed a revolutionary way of blending pigments with slow-drying linseed or walnut oil.

Portrait of Agnolo Doni1506, Oil on wood, 63 x 45 cm

Portrait of Maddalena Doni1506, Oil on panel, 63 x 45 cm

Portrait of Maddalena Doni1506, Oil on panel, 63 x 45 cm

Portrait of Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, 1503-06

The School of Athens, 1509, Fresco, width at the base 770 cmStanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatica

One-Point Perspective

Converging Lines

Horizon LineVanishing Point

The School of Athens (detail)1509

FrescoStanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican

The School of Athens (detail)1509, Fresco

Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican

• This figure in The School of Athens is a portrait of Michelangelo. He did not like Raphael.

• Michelangelo accused Raphael of copying his work on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, which he was painting at the same time.

The School of Athens (detail)

1509Fresco

Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican

The Alba Madonna, c. 1510, oil on panel transferred to canvasOverall (diameter): 94.5 cm (37 3/16 in.)

Portrait of Julius II1511-12Oil on wood, 108 x 80,7 cmNational Gallery, London

• Pope Julius II died in 1513.

• He was succeeded by the Medici Pope Leo X, with whom Raphael also got on very well, and who continued to commission him.

Bindo Altoviti, c. 1515oil on panelOverall: 59.7 x 43.8 cm (23 1/2 x 17 1/4 in.)

This handsome young man was

a wealthy Florentine

banker and friend of the

artist in Rome.

Madonna of Loreto (Madonna del Velo), 1509-10, Oil on wood,

120 x 90 cm, Musée Condé, Chantilly

Raphael’s art most completely expressed all the qualities of the High Renaissance:

•Leonardo’s pyramid compositions and chiaroscuro.

•Michelangelo’s dynamic figures and contrapposto poses.