During a time when Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci were the prime artists in Europe, a young man by the name of Raffaello Sanzio was starting to attract major attention with his artworks. The Italian high Renaissance was marked by paintings expressing human grandeur and very humanistic values. No one better portrayed the Italian high Renaissance then Raphael Sanzio, with his painting’s clarity and ease of composition, Raphael was easily one of the greatest …showed first 75 words of 1001 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1001 total…from antiquity, such as Plato and Socrates. The bodies of Raphael’s figures were muscular and idealized and full of motion and gestures, further adding to the realism. In the short thirty-seven years of his life, Raphael summarized and epitomized the entire course of Italian humanism. Even though Raphael did not live as long as Leonardo or Michelangelo, he will always be ranked along with them as one of the greatest artists of all time.