Basilica di Sant’Agostino
Rome
1479 - 1483
Vatican Museums
15th - 20th century
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known simply as Raphael, was one of the most celebrated painters and architects of the Italian Renaissance. Born in 1483 in Urbino, he displayed extraordinary artistic talent from a young age, training under Pietro Perugino before moving to Florence and later Rome. Appointed chief architect of St. Peter’s Basilica in 1514, he continued the work begun by Bramante. His most famous painting is the he School of Athens, painted for the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. Raphael died tragically young at the age of 37, on Good Friday in 1520.