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RAFFAELLO SANZIO DA URBINO,
CALLED
RAPHAEL.
DIED 1520. AGED 37.
“The most graceful Raphael” (says Vasari) “studying the labours of the
ancient and modern masters, collected their various excellences, and amassed
such a store as enriched the art of painting, and brought it to as great a per-
fection as it anciently attained in the pictures of Apelles and Zeuxis, and I
believe that if we had their works to compare with his we should find the latter
superior.”
This splendid genius was the son of Giovanni Sanzio, and born at Urbino
in 1483. Perugino was his master, whose dry manner he at first closely imi-
tated, but afterwards abandoned, to emulate the learned designs and elegant
compositions of Lionardo Da Vinci and Michael Angelo. With that aspiring
view he studied, rather than copied, the antique, while from Fra Bartolemeo
he acquired the true principles of colouring. At length invited to Rome by
his uncle, the famous architect Bramante, he was introduced to Pope Julius
II. under whose auspices he soon developed, in the Vatican, those wonderful
talents which have crowned him “Prince of Painters.”
His remaining years were occupied in incessant labours, as a painter,
sculptor, and architect; always great, though in painting greatest, The
Frescoes, in the Vatican; the Cartons, in his Majesty’s possession (engraved
by Mr. Holloway in the most finished and scientific style); and the Transfigu-
ration, are the most sublime efforts of his pencil; but a criticism worthy any
of these productions would alone occupy volumes; suffice then a general cha-
racter of his works, according to the opinion of the judicious Charles Alphonse
Du Fresnoy.
CALLED
RAPHAEL.
DIED 1520. AGED 37.
“The most graceful Raphael” (says Vasari) “studying the labours of the
ancient and modern masters, collected their various excellences, and amassed
such a store as enriched the art of painting, and brought it to as great a per-
fection as it anciently attained in the pictures of Apelles and Zeuxis, and I
believe that if we had their works to compare with his we should find the latter
superior.”
This splendid genius was the son of Giovanni Sanzio, and born at Urbino
in 1483. Perugino was his master, whose dry manner he at first closely imi-
tated, but afterwards abandoned, to emulate the learned designs and elegant
compositions of Lionardo Da Vinci and Michael Angelo. With that aspiring
view he studied, rather than copied, the antique, while from Fra Bartolemeo
he acquired the true principles of colouring. At length invited to Rome by
his uncle, the famous architect Bramante, he was introduced to Pope Julius
II. under whose auspices he soon developed, in the Vatican, those wonderful
talents which have crowned him “Prince of Painters.”
His remaining years were occupied in incessant labours, as a painter,
sculptor, and architect; always great, though in painting greatest, The
Frescoes, in the Vatican; the Cartons, in his Majesty’s possession (engraved
by Mr. Holloway in the most finished and scientific style); and the Transfigu-
ration, are the most sublime efforts of his pencil; but a criticism worthy any
of these productions would alone occupy volumes; suffice then a general cha-
racter of his works, according to the opinion of the judicious Charles Alphonse
Du Fresnoy.