Raphael Biography

in full Raffaello Sanzio

(1483–1520)

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  • c.1503 The Crucifixion (National Gallery, London)
  • 1504 Marriage of the Virgin (Brera, Milan)
  • 1505 Portrait of Maddalena Doni (Pitti Palace, Florence)
  • 1505–6 Madonna of the Goldfinch (Uffizi, Florence)
  • 1507 The Deposition of Christ (Borghese Gallery, Rome)
  • 1507 Madonna with Child and St John the Baptist (La Belle Jardinière ) (Louvre, Paris)
  • 1508–11 School of Athens; The Disputation over the Sacraments (Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome)
  • 1508 The Niccolini-Cowper Madonna (National Gallery, Washington, DC)
  • c.1512–13 Sistine Madonna (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden)
  • 1515–16 cartoons for the Sistine Chapel (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, on loan from the Royal College, London)
  • 1516 Portrait of Balthasar Castiglione (Louvre, Paris)
  • 1517–1520 The Transfiguration (Vatican Gallery, Rome)
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In the Bible and the Qur'n, one of the archangels. In the apocryphal book of Tobit he appears in human disguise and conquers the demon Asmodeus. His name in Hebrew means “God has healed,” and in Tobit his business is to heal the earth. Raphael is reckoned among the saints in both Eastern and Western churches, and his feast day is October 24.


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