Raphael
aphael Santi (1483–1520), along with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, is one of the three artistic titans of the Italian High Renaissance. Yet unlike the other two, he hasn’t gotten the widespread admiration in the United States that he deserves. In part, that is because he has never been the subject of bestselling novels or Hollywood epics. More importantly, his most remarkable works, like The School of Athens, are frescoed on the walls of the Vatican or hanging in European museums and rarely loaned. Even in England, where many of his drawings and paintings reside, there have been few exhibits and, until now, none covering his entire career. For its Raphael show (closing July 31), London’s National Gallery has successfully secured loans of Raphael’s paintings, drawings, prints, tapestries, sculptures, and architectural models from all over Europe.
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