Raphael Santi“Galatea Raphael”

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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael.

He was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition.

Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant Central Italian city of Urbino.

His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight.

A picture, I want to tell you about is Triumph of Galatea.

It was complited in 1512. It was made fo  Villa Farnesina in Rome. The Farnesina was built for the Sienese banker  Agostino Chigi, one of the richest men of that age.

Raphael did not paint any of the main events of the story. He chose the scene of the nymph's apotheosis. Galatea appears surrounded by other sea creatures. At the left, a Triton (partly man, partly fish) abducts a sea nymph; behind them, another Triton uses a shell as a trumpet. Galatea rides a shell-chariot drawn by two dolphins.

While some have seen in the model for Galatea the image of the courtesan, Raphael's near-contemporary, the artist and art biographer Giorgio Vasari, wrote that Raphael did not mean for Galatea to resemble any one human person, but to represent ideal beauty. Her gaze is directed upward to heaven, reflecting Platonic love.

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