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Raphael created this work for his close friend Lorenzo Nasi, a wealthy wool merchant from Florence. The painting shows the meeting between Saint John, Jesus, and Mary. (Livingston).

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One of Raphaels sketches that he worked on in his fathers art studio. (Livingston).

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Raphael when he was a young boy

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When his father died he inherited his fathers painting studio. Raphael practiced art in his fathers studio and got very good at it. His relationship with his stepmother was not good so one time between 1495 and 1500 he ran away. Raphael ended up at the Master of the Umbrian School in Perugia. Sanzio showed great talent for art. Even just being 17 years old.
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This is one of Sanzio’s first paintings. This piece was inspired by The Giving Keys to St. Peters. The Giving Keys to St. Peters was painted by Perugino who was Raphaels mentor.
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These are Raphael's paintings that he made after, The Marriage Of The Virgin. These are his three smaller ones. These pieces are examples of narrative paintings. They are adolescent paintings that show his ability to control the elements of his own style.
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Vision of a Knight, c.1504 - Raphael - WikiArt.org

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'Vision of a Knight' was created in c.1504 by Raphael in High Renaissance style. Find more prominent pieces of genre painting at Wikiart.org - best visual art database.

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The Marriage of the Virgin, also known as Lo Sposalizio, is an oil painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael. Completed in 1504 for the Franciscan church of San Francesco, Città di Castello, the painting depicts a marriage ceremony between Mary and Joseph. It changed hands several times before settling in 1806 at the Pinacoteca di Brera.

In the later years of the 15th century, patrons in Citta di Castello sent three commissions to Raphael's teacher Pietro Perugino which, in Perugino's absence, were completed by Raphael. The Marriage of the Virgin, featuring the theme of the Marriage of the Virgin, was the last of these. Evidently inspired by one of Perugino's paintings, also known as Marriage of the Virgin, Raphael finished his own work, according to the date placed next to his signature, in 1504.

This particular piece was commissioned by one Filippo degli Albezzini to hang in a church dedicated to Saint Francis. It remained in its original home until General Giuseppe Lechi led forces to Città di Castello to liberate it from Austrian occupation, when the painting was gifted to (or perhaps demanded by) the general. "Restoring Raphael" in the Cambridge Companion to Raphael (2005) reports that the painting remained with Lechi to his death in 1804, but Lechi died in 1836. The Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings states rather that Lechi sold the piece in 1801 to one Giacomo Sannazaro, who himself sold the piece in 1804 to the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan. By whatever means it arrived there, it was in the possession of the hospital for a short time, as in 1806 the hospital sold it to the Italian state for 53,000 francs. It has since then been displayed in the Pinacoteca di Brera, in spite of an 1859 proposal to donate the image to France after that country's army had entered Milan.

Through these various relocations, the painting was damaged. The panel had several cracks in the upper half, while there was rippling and bowing throughout. Italian artist Giuseppe Molteni, retained to repair it in November 1857, chose to preserve the panel rather than transfer the painting to canvas and spent months flattening the panel and hydrating it to overcome the damage of desiccation. This decision on the part of Molteni has permitted 20th-century art historians to use infrared reflectography to study the underdrawing beneath the completed art work. Molteni also undertook to clean the surface of the painting, which had been subjected to restoration before. He did not clean aggressively, as he wanted to be sure that elements of the original painting were preserved. The Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings indicates that the painting is "somewhat discoloured."

There have been several historians who have disputed that Perugino's Marriage of the Virgin preceded Raphael's, and some who have suggested the painting was not Perugino's at all but instead produced after Raphael's by one of Perugino's followers. However, a 16th century documentary evidence supports the conclusion that Perugino had begun working on the painting in 1499, though it was not completed until some point after December 26, 1503.

Although Raphael was heavily inspired by Perugino in painting the piece, differences of the two were remarked upon within decades of the painting's completion by 16th-century Italian artist and art biographer Giorgio Vasari, who said that in the piece "may be distinctly seen the progress of excellence of Raphael's style, which becomes much more subtle and refined, and surpasses the manner of Pietro. In this work," he continued, "there is a temple drawn in perspective with such evident care that it is marvellous to behold the difficulty of the problems which he has there set himself to solve."

It is very likely that the domed building in the background of both Perugino's and Raphael's works, which represents the Temple of Jerusalem, portraits the Temples as a Renaissance version of the Dome of the Rock.

Franz Liszt wrote a composition for solo piano based on Raphael's painting with the title " Sposalizio" in his Années de pèlerinage (Deuxième année: Italie).

Raffaello e Brera, exh. cat. ed. by C. Bertelli and M. Olivari, (Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera), Milan 1984

Raffaello. Lo Sposalizio della Vergine restaurato, exh. cat. ed. by E. Daffra and M. Ceriana, Milan 2009

Champlin, John Denison; Charles Callahan Perkins (1913). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. C. Scribner's sons.

Hoeniger, Cathleen Sara (2005). The Cambridge Companion to Raphael. Cambridge University Press. pp. 276-306. ISBN 978-0-521-80809-5.

Masters in Art: a series of illustrated monographs. Bates and Guild Co. 1900.

Mazzucchelli, Francesco; Luigi Mazzuchelli; Sergio Onger (1998). Caro figlio, stimato padre: famiglia, educazione e società nobiliare nel carteggio tra Francesco e Luigi Mazzuchelli (1784-1793). Grafo. ISBN 978-88-7385-405-0.

McCurdy, Edward (1917). Raphael Santi. Hodder and Stoughton.

Rogov, Mikhail (2016). Antique Numismatics In Raphael's Creativity: Marriage Of The Virgin. Articult -2016.-October(№23(3)).-pp.26-33.- ISSN 2227-6165.

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The Marriage of the Virgin (Raphael) - Wikipedia

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The Marriage of the Virgin , also known as Lo Sposalizio , is an oil painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael. Completed in 1504 for the Franciscan church of San Francesco, Città di Castello, the painting depicts a marriage ceremony between Mary and Joseph.

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Raphael Sanzio's importance to the Renaissance and Accomplishments

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Raphael Sanzio's importance to the Renaissance and Accomplishments

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Raphael Sanzio was important to the renaissance because of his artistic abilities. He created some of the most famous and beautiful paintings in the world. Which are still remembered today, and some were saved. The paintings can be seen almost 530 years later. Raphael died on April 6, 1520. (Livingston).

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Raphael Sanzio was born in April 6, 1483. Sanzio grew up in Urbino, Italy.  Giovanni Santi was Raphael’s father and he was a painter. His mother, Magia di Battista Ciarla died when Raphael was 8 years old. His father remarried but then died when he was 11. When Raphael was young, he spent time in his fathers studio learning how to paint. The first painting he did was of the Virgin Mary and Jesus.

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