Michael Rohlmann

Raphael (1483-1520) is considered the most important artist of the Italian High Renaissance alongside Michelangelo and Leonardo. In his short lifetime, he created around one hundred paintings and numerous frescoes, including nine fresco cycles, on an unsurpassed variety of themes—from sensual female beauties, antique myths, and portraits of wealthy Romans and church dignitaries to history cycles and biblical scenes. He...