Raphael : Paintings, Frescoes, Tapestries. 45th Ed.

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Raphael, alongside Michelangelo and Leonardo, defined the Italian High Renaissance, creating around a hundred paintings and vast fresco cycles that ranged from myth and portraiture to biblical drama. Works like the Sistine Madonna and his Vatican frescoes cemented his reputation as a visionary who turned divine grace into luminous pictorial form.

A relentless innovator, he refused repetition, pushing style forward until his early death in 1520. His mature Roman period shaped the course of Western art, paving the way for Mannerism and the Baroque, and securing his legacy as one of history’s most modern and influential masters.

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Author: Michael Rohlmann
Language: Angļu valoda
Year of publication: 2026
Manufacturer: Taschen GmbH
Cover type: Hard cover
Number of pages: 512
product.Svars: 1.148 kg
ISBN code: 9783754403471

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Raphael (1483–1520) is considered the most important artist of the Italian High Renaissance alongside Michelangelo and Leonardo. In his short lifetime he created around one hundred paintings and numerous frescoes, including nine fresco cycles, on an unsurpassed variety of themes – from sensual female beauties, antique myths and portraits of wealthy Romans and church dignitaries to history cycles and biblical scenes. He produced altarpieces, as well as designing tapestries for the Sistine Chapel. His Sistine Madonna is one of the most frequently reproduced religious paintings of all time.

Raphael was a tireless learner, for whom there could be no standing still, no repetition of tried and tested solutions, but only the constant forward thrust of an inexhaustible imagination. He transformed his central theme, the visionary experience of divine grace, into visible pictorial reality. It was his mature work in Rome, and above all the frescoes in the Vatican Palace, that secured him his place in art history. Admired even during his own lifetime as the most modern artist of his day, Raphael’s mastery would pave the way for Mannerism and the Baroque era.

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“The search for powerful expressiveness is virtually unmatched in Raphael’s work.” - The New York Times