A Virgin, a frescoes, a saint, a palace speak by Raffaello.
Famous in painting, ingenious in architecture, his art remains present to renaissance until today.
A defined painter , an architect of great talent, lived among the genies: Leonardo and Michelangelo.
Raffaello Sanzio is birth of 28 Mars 1483 of a painter father , that in time has a big contribution in his formation of arts.
Start to Urbino, an artistic center of the first importance that radiating in Italy and Europe.
The first studies of draft and painting have got by father, being a master by a important atelier working into the creations of paintings for the locale aristocracies and ducal families with the series of Muses.
Into his atelier he deep the studies for the first notions in principal by base of artistic technical and the technical by frescoes.
The first opera to be attributed to Madonna di casa Santi, a mural painting from familial house.
His name Sanzio derives of saints , his birth and his death are colligated of important days ( birthing and the death by Jesu).
For his study , the access at rooms of Ducal Palace he is intermediated of his father where he studies the works by Piero della Francesca, Luciano Laurana, Francesco di Giorgia Martini, Pedro Berruguete, Giusto di Grand, Antonio del Pollaiolo and others.
After the death by father he arrived to make part of painter’s atelier by Perugino.
The first independent commission is the flag for a local confraternity.
The works!
Painter:
Resurrezione, Crocifissione, Pala del beato Nicola da Tolentino, Sposalizio delle Vergine, Madonna Solly, Madonna Diotallevi, Madonna col Bambino tra i santi Girolamo e Francesco, Madonna del Cardellino, Madonna del Prato, Madonna del Cardellini, Madonna del Belvedere, Madonna della Seggiola, Madonna del divino amore, Trionfo di Bacco, San Michele e il drago, San Giorgio e il drago, Bella giardiniera, Ritratto di cardinale, Ritratto di Baldassarre Castiglione, Ritratto di Giulio II, La Fornarina that represented of a great love for him, an opera sweet, sensuale, full of clairity, lightly , the opera half nude and his muse-love; frescoes by Cappella Baglioni a Spello where is invited by Pinturicchio.
Progetto della Cappella Chigi nel Santa Maria del Popolo, drawings for the sculptures following by Lorenzetto , completed afterwards by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, models Florentine iconography : Madonna Tempi .
His work astonished the varies expressions, gestures , he manages to makes sublimes and poetics the moments crossed of every day.
In work are present the influence by Leonardo in Donna gravida, Agnolo Doni, Donna col lincorno, Muta…
Into the works reflected a description of the wearing of jewelers , brightness of personage , clair obscure and enigmatic smile.
An another technical and the scenography vision and balances in that the human figures are disposed with the natural gestures in solemn and calculated symmetry( Liberazione di san Pietro, Messa di Bolsena).
Architect:
The works important into Vaticana Basilica.
The works in little church Sant’Eligio degli Orefici, Cappella Chigi, stucture of architecture in Pantheon, Cupola Bramante, progets per Palazzo Branconi dell’ Aquila, Palazzo Jacopo de Brescia, Palazzo Alberini, Palazzo Vidon Caffarelli, Palazzo Pandolfini, Villa Madama, La Logge facciata Niccolino in Vaticano, Volta della Cappella Sistina…
His great opera remains in time “ la Logge”, the execution and decoration named “ Bibbia di Raffaello”.
His works are a chromatic wealth by a venetian , sweetly by Leonardo, the dynamism by Michelangelo , astonished of own sensibility.
His talent assimilates the better that can looking an eye.
He is death at Rome , buried in Pantheon after his desires , from 6th April 1520.
Talent with rivalry:
Michelangelo, rival unbeatable.
With his force , talent, the imagination catch the divine universe in Paradise and the Hell with the earth , entered from human suffering.
His dynamism entre in papal polemics.
His footprint , the figures , the muscularity of personages , the expression profound entered in frescoes , all is the painting by Raffaello.
The polemic more fighting is for light technical in frescoes named in opera” Volta della Cappella Sistina”.
In time remains:
Raffaello lover!
Raffaello painter!
Raffaello architect!
Raffaello genius!
Raffaello meditative!
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