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Raphael

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Profession
Painter
Died
Apr 6, age 37
Zodiac
Aries
Born in
UrbinoItaly
About
Remembered best for his famous fresco The School of Athens, this important Italian artist of the High Renaissance also created numerous portraits, religious paintings, drawings, and prints. Also an architect, he designed the Chigi Chapel and several other structures in Rome, Italy.
Family
Born Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, he was the son of a court artist named Giovanni Santi. Though Raphael never married, he was briefly engaged to a Maria Bibbiena, and he also had a long-lasting romantic relationship with a woman named Margherita Luti.

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