vendredi 6 avril 2007

Raphaël

Raphael or Raffaello (April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520) was an Italian master painter and architect of the Florentine school in High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings.
The inscription in his marble sarcophagus, a distichon written by Pietro Bembo, reads: "Ille hic est Raffael, timuit quo sospite vinci, rerum magna parens et moriente mori." Meaning (according to the sign beside it) : "Here lies Raffaello who, when alive, Nature was afraid to be won by him, when he died, she wanted to die herself".
- The only guy I know that died for his birthday.

The High Renaissance is a rather subjective art term denoting the culmination of the Italian Renaissance art between 1500 and 1525.
The High Renaissance painting is generally held to have been born in the late 1490s, when Leonardo da Vinci executed his Last Supper in Milan.
Source : WP.

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