Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino popularly known as Raphael, was an Italian painer and architect during the age of Renaissance. Most of is work is praised for its formative clarity, the composition and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. He died at the age of 37, even though he died young, his artwork was passionate and prolific.
During the peak of the Italian High Renaissance his paintings were up there with the besy.
His paintings showed the humanist era's notions like none other could, they were a new style among it own. . He is, alongside Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo, considered an equal part of the holy trinity of master artists of his time.
Raphael's prodigiousness in painting - despite his relatively short life - was a result of his training that began when he was just a mere child. From a childhood spent in his painter father's workshop to his adult life running one of the largest workshops of its kind, he garnered a reputation as one of the most productive artists of his time.
Although largely known for his paintings, many of which can still be seen in the Vatican Palace where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the largest work of his career, he was also an architect, printmaker, and expert draftsman. In other words, a true "Renaissance man."