Keadra Jeter
ART 4396 – Dr. M. Vaccaro
Research Paper – Raphael
Stanza Della Segnatura: A Challenge to Raphael
Considered to be in “the ‘holy trinity’ of Renaissance painters along with Leonardo and Michelangelo,” Raphael was known to be “more versatile than Michelangelo and more prolific than the older contemporary Leonardo.” Only living until the young age of 37, he definitely made his mark during the Renaissance era with his many drawings, paintings, and pieces of architecture. But the question to discuss is, what made his commissioned work with Pope Julius II more notable and memorable than any other pieces he has created? This paper will cover his biography, his drawing style with a brief overview of his surviving drawings, and one of his most notable commissions, the so-called Stanza Della Segnatura.
Biography
Born in 1483 in Urbino, Raphael, or Raphael Sanzio, was the son of Giovanni Santi, who was a court painter. Raphael’s father gave him first instruction in painting and introduced Raphael to humanistic philosophy before his death in 1494. As a child, Raphael’s brief time with his father helped him gain a great deal of knowledge about the arts, literature, and social skills to help Raphael move among the more elite of society and gain art commissions to boost his career as an artist. After his father’s death (1494), Raphael began to run his father’s workshop. After some time, he exceeded his father in talent and began to receive numerous commissions, for
During this painting, Michelangelo didn’t have the drive he usually did, but when his greatest enemy, Perugino started to work on it with him, that drove him to another level. Michelangelo’s interest in portraying the human body, reflected how the people in this time period felt, and that made the people who viewed his art interested in his work. Also, his sculptures reflect how dramatic of a shift it was to the Renaissance Period from the Middle Ages, and shows how the
Perspective plays an important role in understanding Masaccio’s frescos. Masaccio was born in 1401 and died unfortunately young in 1428. His full birth name is Tommasio di Ser Giovanni de Simone. He made a great contribution to Italian and Florentine art during the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. He worked alongside Filippo Brunelleschi an Italian architect and engineer. Together they created the idea of linear perspective with the influence of earlier artists such as Lorenzetti, Duccio and Giotto brothers. Linear perspective helps to form the impression of a three-dimensional space on a completely flat surface. This essay will compare ‘The Holy Trinity’ (fig. 1) by Masaccio and Raphael’s ‘The School of Athens’ (fig. 2). Both Masaccio and Raphael use linear perspective in their paintings to create a sense of depth and realism.
Here’s some facts about Raphael Raphael was born on April 6, 1483, in Urbino, Italy he became Perugino’s apprentice in 1504. Living in Florence from 1504 to 1507, he began painting a series of Madonna’s. In Rome from 1504 to 1511 he painted the stanza Della segnatura frescoes located in the palace of the vatiein. He later painted another fresco cycle for the vatiein, in the Stanza d’Eliodoro (“Room of Heliodorus”). In 1514, Pope Julius II hired Raphael as his chief architect. Around the same time, he completed his last work in his series of the “Madonna’s,” an oil painting called Sistine Madonna. Raphael died in Rome on April 6, 1520. Italian Renaissance painter and architect Raphael was born Raffelo Sanzio on April 6, 1483, in Urbino, Italy.
One of the most famous painter and sculptors of the Italian Renaissance, the age of renewal and cultural achievement circa 1500, was the artistic genius Michelangelo Buonarroti. The man that desired nothing but perfection often reached it in his work. He captured the motion of the human figure and the anatomy of muscles in a way that was increasingly beautiful and startlingly realistic. Whether because of one of the most famous sculptures in history, “the David” or the paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, that became the textbook examples for the art period of High Renaissance, Michelango’s art changed the world and he will continue to be studied with awe throughout history.
Raphael was born in Urbino, Italy on April 6, 1483. At the time of his birth Urbino was encouraging the arts and was a cultural center. Raphael's father, Giovanni Santi who was a painter for the Duke of Urbino (Federigo da Montefeltro), taught him, when he was young, the basics of "painting techniques and exposed him to the humanistic philosophy at the Dukes court. When he was 8 years old his mother died then when he was 11 years old his father died. After his death Raphael started managing his father's workshop and he quickly surpassed his father's work and was now considered the "finest painter in the town".
He was an extremely talented artist who had died an early age of thirty-seven. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci he formed the traditional trinity of great masters of the High Renaissance. He finished many of the painting other artists couldn’t. At the sight of Raphael’s skill, Pope Julius II dismissed his other artists as well as tore down their paintings, and had Raphael complete them.
Raffaello Sanzio, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect born in the mountain town of Urbino. In his early years, Raphael was trained by his father Giovanni Santi, a court painter and versifier, allowing him to gain a wide education in the arts, literature, and social skills. This enabled Raphael to move easily amongst the higher circles of court society and this helped him gain recognition. “His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (from 1504-1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates.” (Raphael Biography)
Two main differences immediately apparent between Raphael’s School of Athens and Leonardo’s Adoration of the Magi are the compositions of the large figure groups within each painting and the state of completion. In the forty foot wide fresco of School of Athens, the figures are organized in a mathematically constructed arrangement. The heads of the figure group in the background create a central horizontal line across the fresco. The two smaller figure groups in the foreground on the left and right are arranged with slightly less linear organization however when compared to the figure group of Leonardo’s Adoration of the Magi
The author of The School of Athens, is Raffaello Sanzio. He was born in the mountain town of Urbino. Raphael was born on April 6, 1483 and also died on the same day in Rome in 1520. He settled in Florence in 1505 at only fifteen-year’s old. Raphael first produced art in Urbino at a young age. Raphael produced his first piece of art at fifteen year’s old. He is a naturalistic artist. He used paint for his paintings. He started with Marriage of the Virgin (1504), the Dispute over the Sacrament (1510-1511), then the misnamed School of Athens (1510-1511), and lastly the Cardinal Virtues (1511). Raphael was part of the great trio of High Renaissance masters. He became the most prolific and most widely celebrated painter of his time. At age twenty-six-year-old Raphael was called to Rome by Pope Julius II to embark on the major phase of his career. Raphael did not approach painting as a series of solutions to technical problems of representation. Instead, he made preliminary sketches many of them preserved
Raffaello Sanzio was born on April 6, 1483 in the small city of Urbino, Marche, Italy. His family consisted of his father and mother who were in their late 40’s. Since birth Sanzio was strongly influenced by Renaissance painters and poets. Sanzio's paintings were greatly influenced by by his family, his move to Italy and his success as a painter.
In Nelson Minnich's religious interpretation of Raphael's famous portrait of Pope Leo X, Minnich first begins with the very basics of the portrait; what is contained within its canvas and why it is there. From small clues such as these, he is able to lay the foundation for which theories and conclusions can be based.
The objective of this work examines the how Leonardo Da Vinci's work is reflective and definitive of the Renaissance period and as well, describes some of Da Vinci's art. This work will discuss the use of line, form, color, texture, and materials as found within one of his works and will state reasons this time period was chosen to examine in this work and why it is found to be appealing.
Raphael was born Raffaello Santi or Raffaello Sanzio in Urbino on April 6, 1483, and received his early training in art from his father, the painter Giovanni Santi. In 1499 he went to Perugia, in Umbria, and became a student and assistant of the painter Perugino. Raphael imitated his master closely; their paintings of this period are executed in styles so similar that art historians
Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was the full name of the famous artist we all call by just his first name Michelangelo. Michelangelo was born on March 6th, 1475 in Caprese, Italy and lived with his parents and four siblings. Michelangelo's mother became sick when he was an infant and he was raised by a wet nurse. In Michelangelo's teen years he would leave school early and go to the church to watch the painted while they worked; his family started to see him as a disgrace as they didn’t see art as a profession he should join(Michelangelo). As he became older he worked more and more with stone over any other type of art and made
Raphael was one of the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance. Raphael painted and designed many brilliant pieces of work and the stanzas inside the Vatican. He was a master at such necessities of modern art such as depth and perspective and the use of light and shadow, and was the turning point styles of paintings like the use of Madonnas in paintings. Through his short life, Raphael would make some of the most awe-inspiring, beautiful, and influential works of art during the Italian Renaissance.