A large- format, beautifully illustrated volume on the life and works of Raphael - Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520), the Italian painter, designer and architect, whose work conveys the most complete expression of the ideals of the High Renaissance.Accompanying the extraordinary wealth of reproductions of his paintings is a text by the Director of the Polo Museale Romano, who documents Raphael's life from his birth in Urbino, covering all the major aspects of his life, through his time in Florence to his inevitable arrival in Rome and the numerous masterpieces that remain there.Hugely influential during his lifetime, he unfortunately died on his 37th birthday, but his reputation had ever lived. This important volume reflects that view and includes a number of rare and some previously unpublished images,
