Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio, 1483–1520) was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect, one of the three great masters of the High Renaissance alongside Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Best known for the Sistine Madonna and the School of Athens.
Perfected the Renaissance ideal of harmony, grace, and clarity in painting; his works defined the visual ideal of Western sacred art.
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