Madonna solly raphael sanzio biography
The Solly Madonna by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael was painted sometime between and An early work, it clearly shows the influence of....
Raphael
(1483-1520)
Who Was Raphael?
Italian Renaissance painter and architect Raphael became Perugino's apprentice in 1504.
It was the Italian Renaissance painter, Raphael Sanzio which created the work called Solly Madonna.
Living in Florence from 1504 to 1507, he began painting a series of "Madonnas." In Rome from 1509 to 1511, he painted the Stanza della Segnatura ("Room of the Signatura") frescoes located in the Palace of the Vatican.
He later painted another fresco cycle for the Vatican, in the Stanza d'Eliodoro ("Room of Heliodorus"). In 1514, Pope Julius II hired Raphael as his chief architect. Around the same time, he completed his last work in his series of the "Madonnas," an oil painting called the Sistine Madonna.
Raphael died in Rome on April 6, 1520.
Early Life and Training
Raphael was born Raffaello Sanzio on April 6, 1483, in Urbino, Italy.
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.At the time, Urbino was a cultural center that encouraged the Arts. Raphael’s father, Giovanni Santi, was a painter for the Duke of Urbino, Federigo da Montefeltro. Giovanni taug