Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio, better known by his father and the rest of the world as Raphael, was born in the great city of Urbino, Italy, on April 6, 1483. His father Giovanni de' Santi, a painter of no great merit, but of good intelligence, had in his mind from the beginning that his only son would study the works of some of the more superior artists. Because of this desire, Raphael as a child, was expected to learn …

…taught and develop those ideas into his own. From the start Perugino created an opinion of this great student and that opinion was later proved correct. As Raphael grew older, it was not uncommon to mistaken the works of his to be the works of his teacher Pietro Perugino. In 1504 Raphael moved to Florence, Italy, to begin studying the works of both Leonardo da Vinci, another great Italian artist, and Michaelangelo. He was greatly influenced