Category:Sanzio, Raffaelo

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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (usually known as "Raphael") was one of the most famous Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. (Raffaello Sanzio: 06 April or 28 March 1483 – 06 April 1520)