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Raphael Sanzio (Raffaello Sanzio; 1483-1520) - Together with Michelangelo and da Vinci, Raphael completes the High Renaissance triad of genius. This young painter from Urbino spent much of his short career in Rome, where he fused the exquisite limpid clarity and Umbrian style of his teacher, Perugino, with the soft modeling and complex compositions of Leonardo da Vinci and later—in Rome after he witnessed the unveiling of the Sistine Chapel ceiling—some of Michelangelo's innovative exuberance, palate, and boldness. He was courtly in manner, and his paintings were great crowd-pleasers. None of his greatest works remain in Tuscany or Umbria, but there is a glut of good paintings in Florence's Pitti Palace, several in the Uffizi, and an important early work in Perugia's San Severo.

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio; 1483–1520) is rightfully considered one of Western art’s greatest draftsman. Raphael produced a body of work in his 37 short years that ignited European painters for generations to come. So it's only fitting that his only significant work in Northern Italy, kept in Milan's Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, is a sketch, one for the School of Athens, the fresco of which graces the papal apartments of the Vatican, at once a celebration of Renaissance artistic precepts, the classical philosophers whose rediscovery spurred on the Renaissance, and Raphael's contemporaries (the various "philosophers" are actually portraits of Leonardo, Bramante, and Raphael himself—Michelangelo is not in the sketch, but was added in the painting).