Essay on Raphael Sanzios Life and Accomplishments

Raffaello Sanzio was an amazing artist from the late 1400’s to the early 1500’s, who created many amazing paintings that helped change the style of medieval art to Renaissance art. Without him, the style of art now would most likely be more primitive and not as advanced as it should be. This is because he made many advances including more realistic painting. His most important paintings include â€Å"The School Of Athens†, the â€Å"Sistine Madonna†, and the â€Å"Marriage of the Virgin†. Not only are those some of his most famous paintings, they also show the realisticness that changed the world. Raffaello Sanzio had a very interesting young life. He was born in Urbino, which at the time was a cultural center that encouraged the arts. The arts†¦show more content†¦He was his apprentice at the town of Perugia. Since Perugino was a master painter this greatly influenced Raphael’s young life and encouraged him to become an artist. Raphael, before exiting apprenticeship, made a few amazing paintings. These include the Mond Crucifixion, The Three Graces, The Knight’s Dream, and The Marriage of the Virgin, which I will mention later. Raphael made many very detailed paintings. My choices for his most contributing paintings are The School of Athens, The Sistine Madonna, and The Marriage of The Virgin. They were just a few of the many amazing paintings that Raphael has painted. The School of Athens was possibly Raphael’s most popular painting. It shows representations of many mathematicians, philosophers, and scientists of the Renaissance. The two people walking down the middle of the hall are Aristotle and Plato who were very important contributors to the way of western thinking, and in different ways, their philosophies were incorporated into Christianity. Plato is holding the book called The Timaeus. Plato points up because in his philosophy the changing world that we see around us is just a shadow of a higher, truer reality that is eternal and unchanging (and include things like goodness and beauty). Aristotle holds his hand down, because in his philosophy, the only reality is the reality that we can see and