Techniques
A technique employed by Raphael to display dynamism between characters.
What is movement?
This painting demonstrated the point his his career when he discovered his fresco style, which he would continue to carry through his career. He also illustrated the development of his confidence as a painter with more confident, broader, and painterly brushstrokes along with heavier, more solid figures, a richer and freer composition, and a more harmonious palette.
What is The School of Athens?
When creating his painting The School of Athens, Raphael was influenced by these two famous philosophers.
Who are Plato and Aristotle?
Every piece Raphael made was completely different and unique.
What is the major reason he is a famous artist?
An aspect of Raphael’s works that made him a “Renaissance” artist relating to where he painted.
What are Raphael’s architectural settings?
Raphael used this technique in his painting Vision of a Night to split the painting in half between virtue on the left and pleasure on the right
What is linear perspective?
These Raphael paintings that portray Madonna, or the Virgin Mary, are found in over 20 museums around the world, and are considered “icons of western civilization.”
What are the Madonna paintings?
Models from this empire further influenced his piece, the School of Athens.
What is Ancient Rome?
Raphael famously used this characteristic in his paintings, something no artist had used until him.
What is freedom?
An aspect of Raphael’s paintings that made him a “Renaissance” artist, relating to the subjects of what he painted.
What are Christian scenes from the bible for the Vatican and taking influence from many of his contemporaries?
Raphael's figures were described this way: Physically strong, and idealized to match classical standards.
What are vigorous and muscular?
A Raphael painting which told anew the romance of the goddess Galatea
What is the Triumph of Galatea?
This famous Renaissance artist influenced Raphael's calm style.
Who is Pietro Perugoni?
Raphael revolutionized this style to create numerous allegorical and historical figures and scenes during his time in Rome and the Vatican that academic scholars are still interpreting to this day.
What is wall painting?
The popular Renaissance movement that artists such as Raphael used in their artwork.
What is realism and idealist beauty?
An idealized aesthetic style derived from classicism and the art of the High Renaissance.
What is maniera grandera or grand manner?
This painting displays the education of a young knight, Scipio, choosing between left virtue and right pleasure. The tree in the middle symbolizes symmetry and balance, the goal of every Renaissance person.
What is the Vision of a Knight?
At this person's palace, Raphael discovered how to use linear perspective to create natural-looking settings filled with people who also looked real by looking at the painted wooden walls.
Who is Duke Federigo da Montefeltro?
Raphael worked on this, along with Bramante and Michelangelo, to create Pope Julius II’s image as the “Renaissance Pope,” which continues to overshadow the hostile criticism towards the pope by many people of his time.
What is his furnishing of the Stanze?
- which made up Pope Julius II’s papal apartments on the top floor of the Vatican
A major purpose of many of Raphael’s paintings that was common in the Renaissance.
What is telling stories through paintings?
Like Muslim art, Raphael placed a lot of importance on this, in his art.
What is order and decoration?
This is Raphael’s work in the Vatican that he did as a papal architect and superintendent general of antiques, which constituted his greatest legacy.
What are the loggias in the Vatican?
Raphael was greatly influenced in his Madonna series by this artist's painting with a similar name.
Who is Leonardo?
Raphael did this in his portraits to set him apart from any other artist.
What is capturing personal likeness?
Raphael mastered these techniques that were common to the Renaissance era.
What is sfumato and perspective?