Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520), better known as Raphael ( RAF-ay-əl, RA(Y)F-ee-əl, RAH-fy-EL), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.
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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 28 March 1483 Urbino, Marche, Italy
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6 April 1520 (aged 37) Rome, Italy
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Zodiac | Aries |
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