Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

villa in Rome, central Italy

Italian painter

Italian mistress and model of Raphael

crater on Mercury

Italian courtesan

Italian ocean liner

part of the Vatican palace

opera by Anton Arensky