History Creator / RaphaelSanzio

!!Media featuring Raphael:

* ''Film/Sin2019'', in which he's portrayed by Glen Blackhall.

Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop, and despite his death at 37, a large body of his work remains. Many of his works are found in the [[UsefulNotes/VaticanCity Vatican]] Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is ''The School of Athens'' in the Vatican's Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}, much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. 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 (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of UsefulNotes/{{Florence}}, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two [[UsefulNotes/ThePope Popes]] and their close associates.

The 19th century art movement, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, was named after him, alongside other Quattrocento artists, as part of a {{Retraux}} art style emulating his works in reaction to the rigid academic art style of the period and of the Industrial Revolution.

* {{Allegory}}: Raphael's four {{paintings}} in the Signatura room of the Papal Palace represent the four greatest human pursuits:
** ''Disputation of the Holy Sacrament'' represents the science of theology by showing the greatest Hebrew and Christian saints fondly regarding the clergy of the time debating around the Holy Eucharist.
** ''Art/TheSchoolOfAthens'' represents philosophy by putting Creator/{{Plato}}, Creator/{{Aristotle}}, and every other pagan philosopher in a huge dialogue in an imagined academy of wisdom.
** ''The Parnassus'' represents the pursuit of beauty with a concert by [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek god Apollo]] attended by the Nine Muses and every great poet from Creator/{{Homer}} to Raphael's contemporary, [[Literature/OrlandoFurioso Ludovico Ariosto]].
** ''Cardinal and Theological Virtues'' represents the pursuit of goodness with {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of the four cardinal and three theological virtues resting above two great law-makers, [[UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire Emperor Justinian]] and UsefulNotes/ThePope Gregory IX.
* AnachronismStew: ''Art/TheSchoolOfAthens'' depicts an adult Aristotle in the same building as Socrates, who was executed when Aristotle was 15. Then there's TheCameo from Raphael himself and the Muslim philosopher Averroes, none of which had access to enough TimeTravel to make it to the school on time.

* AsideGlance: The only character in ''Art/TheSchoolOfAthens'' who seems to see the viewer is an Italian pretty boy who looks suspiciously like Raphael.

* CreatorCameo: Raphael's self-portrait is hidden in the crowd of Greek philosophers fro, ''Art/TheSchoolOfAthens'', set apart from the others by the AsideGlance he gives to the audience.

* TheEeyore: Among the brightly colored geniuses sharing their learnings in excitement, the pessimist philosopher Heraclitus bends over a peace of marble, covering his face in shadow, as he looks away from the writing he seems to get no joy from completing.

* GotTheWholeWorldInMyHand:
** In ''Art/TheSchoolOfAthens'', Ptolemy and Zoroaster are holding globes of the heavens and the Earth to demonstrate their mastery over the science of astronomy.
** {{God}}, as depicted in ''Disputation of the Holy Sacrament'', casually holds the planet in his left hand as he towers over the throne of Heaven.

* HeavenAbove: ''Art/TheSchoolOfAthens'' has Plato [[DeclarativeFinger pointing his finger skyward]], which visualizes his philosophical focus on identifying [[{{God}} the Metaphysical Form of the Good]] which produces goodness like the sun produces light.

* InkSuitActor: Plato's appearance in ''Art/TheSchoolOfAthens'' is derived from Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, who's wizened beard fit well with wise aesthetic Raphael wanted Plato to have. Many other contemporary figures appear as ancient ones in the painting. (The [[UsefulNotes/TheBorgias Borgia]] Apartment directly downstairs has the same gimmick, with Pope Alexander's daughter Lucrezia as St. Catherine, his son Cesare as St. Sebastian, and the pope himself kneeling and praying as Jesus flies out of his tomb).
** It was Pope Julius II who first commissioned Raphael to fresco the rooms (and he chose the 3rd floor apartment because he wanted to stomp on the spirit of his old, dead enemy Borgia downstairs). After he died, the project was continued by Pope Leo X (a Medici, the son of Lorenzo the Magnificent). Leo chose as a subject... the accomplishment of previous popes named Leo. On the pope's orders, Raphael depicted Pope Leo III with Leo X's appearance.

* RedIsHeroic: One of the central figures in ''Art/TheSchoolOfAthens'', Plato, is seen wearing a bright red that distinguishes him and his metaphysical ideals from the muted world at his fate.
* ScienceIsGood: ''Art/TheSchoolOfAthens'' idealizes all of the ancient Greek mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers as members of a single beautiful university. A special honor goes to Creator/{{Aristotle}}, who represents earthly knowledge with his downward gesture, who is walking towards the audience alongside Creator/{{Plato}}. In fact, they are walking right into the painting across the wall from the ''Art/TheSchoolOfAthens'', ''The Disputation of the Sacrament'', indicating science and reason can lead one to the truth and goodness of [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Christ in the Eucharist.]].

* ''Art/TheSchoolOfAthens''
* Art/SistineChapel (tapestries)

* {{Allegory}}: Raphael's four paintings in the Signatura room of the Papal Palace represent the four greatest human pursuits:

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – [[DiedOnTheirBirthday April 6, 1520]]), better known simply as Raphael, was an UsefulNotes/{{Ital|y}}ian painter and architect of the [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance High Renaissance]]. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti and Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

* InkSuitActor: Plato's appearance in ''Art/TheSchoolOfAthens'' is derived from Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, who's wizened beard fit well with wise aesthetic Raphael wanted Plato to have.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an UsefulNotes/{{Ital|y}}ian painter and architect of the [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance High Renaissance]]. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti and Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

* DeathBySex: Implied by Vasari, who suggested at one point that Raphael's sudden illness resulted from a night of "excessive passion" with a mistress.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance High Renaissance]]. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti and Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

* Art/SistineChapel

The 19th century art movement, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, was named after him, alongside other Quattrocento artists, as part of a {{Retraux}} art style in reaction to the rigid academic art style of the period and of the Industrial Revolution.

Works made by Raphael with their own TV Tropes pages include:
* ''Art/TheSchoolOfAthens''

* BlueIsHeroic: One of the central figures in ''Art/TheSchoolOfAthens'', Aristotle, is cloaked in a vibrant blue that marks who '''the''' Philosopher is in this assembly of great and holy minds.

* {{Tsundere}}: Margheritta Luti serves as one towards Raphael throughout the beginning of Haeger's ''The Ruby Ring''.

Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop, and despite his death at 37, a large body of his work remains. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is ''The School of Athens'' in the [[UsefulNotes/VaticanCity Vatican]]'s Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}, much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. 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 (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of UsefulNotes/{{Florence}}, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two [[UsefulNotes/ThePope Popes]] and their close associates.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop, and despite his death at 37, a large body of his work remains. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is ''The School of Athens'' in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. 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 (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.

** ''The School of Athens'' represents philosophy by putting Creator/{{Plato}}, Creator/{{Aristotle}}, and every other pagan philosopher in a huge dialogue in an imagined academy of wisdom.

* AnachronismStew: ''The School of Athens'' depicts an adult Aristotle in the same building as Socrates, who was executed when Aristotle was 15. Then there's TheCameo from Raphael himself and the Muslim philosopher Averroes, none of which had access to enough TimeTravel to make it to the school on time.

* AsideGlance: The only character in ''The School of Athens'' who seems to see the viewer is an Italian pretty boy who looks suspiciously like Raphael.

* BlueIsHeroic: One of the central figures in ''The School of Athens'', Aristotle, is cloaked in a vibrant blue that marks who '''the''' Philosopher is in this assembly of great and holy minds.

* CreatorCameo: Raphael's self-portrait is hidden in the crowd of Greek philosophers fro, ''The School of Athens'', set apart from the others by the AsideGlance he gives to the audience.

** In ''The School of Athens'', Ptolemy and Zoroaster are holding globes of the heavens and the Earth to demonstrate their mastery over the science of astronomy.

* HeavenAbove: ''The School of Athens'' has Plato [[DeclarativeFinger pointing his finger skyward]], which visualizes his philosophical focus on identifying [[{{God}} the Metaphysical Form of the Good]] which produces goodness like the sun produces light.

* InkSuitActor: Plato's appearance in ''The School of Athens'' is derived from Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, who's wizened beard fit well with wise aesthetic Raphael wanted Plato to have.

* RedIsHeroic: One of the central figures in ''The School of Athens'', Plato, is seen wearing a bright red that distinguishes him and his metaphysical ideals from the muted world at his fate.
* ScienceIsGood: ''The School of Athens'' idealizes all of the ancient Greek mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers as members of a single beautiful university. A special honor goes to Creator/{{Aristotle}}, who represents earthly knowledge with his downward gesture, who is walking towards the audience alongside Creator/{{Plato}}. In fact, they are walking right into the painting across the wall from the ''The School of Athens'', ''The Disputation of the Sacrament'', indicating science and reason can lead one to the truth and goodness of [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Christ in the Eucharist.]].