Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
(Italian: [raffa??llo ?santsjo da ur?biːno]; March 28 or April 6, 1483 ? April 6, 1520), known as Raphael (/?ræfe??l/, US: /?ræfi?l, ?r?ːfa???l/), was an
Italian
painter
and
architect
of the High
Renaissance
. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with
Michelangelo
and
Leonardo da Vinci
, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.
Quotes of Raphael
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- Most Holy Father, there are many who, on bringing their feeble judgment to bear on what is written concerning the great achievements of the Romans ? the feats of arms, the city of Rome and the wondrous skill shown in the opulence, ornamentation and grandeur of their buildings ? have come to the conclusion that these achievements are more likely to be fables than facts. I, however, have always seen ? and still do see ?things differently. For, bearing in mind the divine quality of the ancients' minds as revealed in the remains still to be seen among the ruins of Rome, I do not find it unreasonable to believe that much of what we consider impossible seemed, to them, exceedingly simple.
- Quote from a letter of Raphael Sanzio to pope Leo X (c. 1519); Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, cod. it. 37b; translated as 'The Letter to Leo X by Raphael and Baldassare Castiglione, c.1519', by Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks, Palladio's Rome: A Translation of Andrea Palladio's Two Guidebooks to Rome; Yale University Press, New Haven, 2006, pp. 179-92
- Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves.
- Quote from:
1001 quotations to inspire you before you die
; Quintessence Editions Ltd., 2016,
ISBN 978-1-84403-895-4
- When one is painting one does not think.
- Quote from www..inspiringquotes.us/author/4430-raphael
- They say I can draw better than Raphael and probably they are right.