Quadri di raffaello sanzio biography

Raffaello Sanzio was born on 6th Aprile in Urbino.
His father, Giovanni Santi, was a painter and encouraged his son to study the works of Piero della Francesca in Urbino (some of his best).

Raffaello started studying drawing techniques and perspectives; as soon as his father noticed his talent he found him a better teacher: Perugino. In this artist’s workshop Raffaello learnt the grace of his works as well as Pinturicchio’s taste for decoration.

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At the age of seventeen, Raffaello left Perugino’s with the title of magister, which meant painting was his profession.
In the first period of his career he painted some works in Città di Castello: the altar piece of Beato Nicola da Tolentino (only a few fragments survived and are now in Brescia, Naples and Paris), the banner of Trinity (Civic national Picture Gallery of Città di Castello) and the Crucifixion Mond (London National Gallery).

He painted the altarpiece depicting the crowning of the vir