Raphael Italian Renaissance

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RaphaelItalian Renaissance
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Italian Renaissance

• The Renaissance started in Italy around 1450 A.D.
  Thats about 550 years ago.
• The Renaissance speaks of a time when interest in
  art and science are renewed after the hard years
  of the Middle Ages.
• Art became more realistic, and artists began
  painting pictures of all kinds of things even
  things that had nothing to do with religion.
• Artists would paint pictures of nature, and when
  they painted people, they really tried to show
  their subjects emotions.

• What do you see in this picture?
• Notice the unicorn.
• Do you like this picture?

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RaphaelEarly Period

• Raphael is known as one of the three greatest
  artists of the Italian Renaissance.
• He was born in Italy in 1483. If he were alive
  today he would be 525 years old!
• His father was the court painter for the Duke in
  Umbria. Raphael learned not only about painting
  from his father but also about how to behave
  using excellent manners and social skills.
• Raphaels parents had both died by the time he
  was 11. But by then, Raphael was already working
  as an apprentice to an artist.

This is a face from the first work that we are
certain that Raphael worked on. He was about 17
years old when he painted this. What do you
think of this painting?
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Florentine Period

• Raphael was a very popular artist even when he
  was still young. Other artists would ask him to
  come work with them on special projects. He
  spent a lot of time in a city called Florence.
• Raphael learned a lot from other artists and was
  always incorporating new ideas and styles into
  his paintings.
• Even though Renaissance artists explored
  non-religious themes in their art, much of
  Raphaels art is about religion.
• What is this a picture of?
• What do you think of the baby?
• What do you notice about the sky?
• What colors does he use here?
• How do you think he decided on his colors?
• How does this picture make you feel?
• Do you like this picture?

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Raphael in Rome

• Raphael had such a good reputation as an artist
  that Pope Julius II invited him to come to Rome
  to work for him in 1508. Raphael was 24 years
  old.
• The pope was the most powerful person in Italy at
  the time. It would be like the President of the
  United States offering you a job without ever
  having met you.
• Raphael first worked for the Pope as an artist
  and painted murals on the walls of the Vatican,
  the Popes palace.

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• This is one of the most famous paintings that
  Raphael ever did.
• He painted giant paintings on all of the walls of
  this room.
• This room is really big.
• Notice the size of the doors and of the statues
  underneath the painting.
• This is a painting of important thinkers
  (philosophers) that lived hundreds of years
  before Raphael.
• Raphael put the faces of people he knew in the
  painting so some of the faces shown here are
  really Raphaels friends or people he admired!
• What do you think of this room?

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Raphaels Work

• Can you guess who this is a picture of?
• This is a portrait of the Holy Family, Mary,
  Jesus Joseph
• Who is the other child in the picture?
• Raphael used rich colors in his paintings. What
  colors do you notice here?
• Raphael was good at creating depth in his
  paintings. That means that you can look at his
  work and easily tell what is supposed to be near
  you and what is far away. What is far away in
  this picture?
• Raphael is also known for painting faces that
  look kind and loving. Do you think that he did
  that well in this painting? Why do you think so?

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Self-Portrait of Raphael

• How is this painting different from some of the
  other paintings we have looked at today? How is
  it the same?
• Raphael used different colors in his self
  portrait than he used in some of his other
  paintings. How are the colors different? Why do
  you think he chose darker, more somber colors to
  paint himself?
• What do you think of the way Raphael looks? Does
  he look nice? Does he look friendly? Would you
  want to be his friend?

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Art in Action!

• Raphael is most famous for his paintings of Mary
  and the baby Jesus.
• Draw a picture of a mother, a child and an angel.
• Try to use the colors that Raphael used in his
  paintings.