Raphael

Raphael, Raffaello Sanzio of Urbino, trained with Perugino and became, with Leonardo and Michelangelo, one of the three great masters of the High Renaissance. In Florence he painted a series of Madonnas, and in Rome he decorated the Vatican rooms for Pope Julius II, including The School of Athens, while also working as architect of Saint Peter’s. He died in Rome on his 37th birthday. His tapestry cartoons of the Acts of the Apostles, owned by the King, are on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the National Gallery has the Ansidei Madonna and Saint Catherine of Alexandria.