The Life of Raphael

Italian art had a domineering presence in the Renaissance era thanks to the contributions of several technically extraordinary artists. It is difficult to underplay the importance of these masters to European art as a whole such was their influence on almost all that followed on afterwards.
Raphael is one of these masters from the Renaissance and his career came towards the end of this movement, after others had already established Italy as the European centre for art at that time.
Raphael is considered a very traditional style artist as he did not care much for pushing new ideas into art but was happy to create his niche with in what had recently gone on before and essentially tale advantage of those who had pushed boundaries back earlier.
There have been some elements over the past few centuries who have tried to play down he talents and achievements of Raphael but most academics have a clear respect for his work and do not entertain these ideas for one minute.
Some of the most significant paintings from Raphael included The Three Graces, Galatea, Disputation of the Holy Sacrament, Allegory, Marriage Of The Virgin, Pope Leo X with Cardinals, La Donna Velata, Joanna of Aragon, The Vision of Ezekiel, The Miraculous Draught of Fishes and The Entombment. The full list of his career is very long and impressive, and Raphael was an artist who certainly managed to keep up a high level of quality through out his career which aided his legacy.
Many find Raphael an interesting artist who is worth looking at for those who have already studied the other great Renaissance masters of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Most academic studies will study the two latter names in huge detail because of their wide ranging talents as well as their role in pushing ideas onwards, but there is still room for Raphael too, with chapters set aside for his later contributions and the spreading of opinions that still relate to his work.
There are more and more consumers looking to buy Raphael paintings for their homes as a way of appreciating this great artist in a way that is much easier than going to visit his original works in person. The most popular choices tend to be framed giclee art prints which offer a professional finish to any art work and also provide the most accurate reproduction of colours, faithful to the original choices by Raphael.