Raphael

= Raphael Sanzio de Urbino 1483-1520= ====Raphael was about twenty years younger than the greats Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael learned much from the older masters. He admired them so much that their images can be found on the faces of two prominent characters in his famous painting //School of Athens//. Raphael's personality, however, could not have been more different from the others. Raphael had a reputation for being very friendly and happy, a positive outlook that certainly is represented in his work. No one had a negative thing to say about Raphael, and when he died before he was 37 years old, the loss to the artistic community was deeply mourned. Raphael's specialty was portrait painting, and his favorite subjects were the Madonna and Child (Mary and the baby Jesus) and angels - at least, depictions of what people in the 16th century thought angels looked like (small cherubs with wings - a misconception, since this isn't actually how the Bible describes angels).====