1. Self-Portrait 1506 Oil on wood, 45 x 33 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520)

2. The Ansidei Madonna, 1505–1507, Oil on wood, 216.8 cm × 147.6 cm (85.4 in × 58.1 in) National Gallery, London Raphael’s father taught him the basics of painting. He was orphaned at eleven. He apprenticed with Umbirian master Pietro Perugino. By the age of 17, Raphael was rated an indepenent master.

3. Saint George and the Dragon, c. 1506, oil on panel, National Gallery of Art, Andrew W. Mellon Collection Raphael skillfully used oil paints, an invention that changed the history of art Early artists had used egg tempera paint. In the early 1400s artists in northern Europe developed a revolutionary way of blending pigments with slow-drying linseed or walnut oil.

4. Portrait of Agnolo Doni 1506, Oil on wood, 63 x 45 cm Portrait of Maddalena Doni 1506, Oil on panel, 63 x 45 cm

5. Portrait of Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, 1503-06

6. The School of Athens, 1509, Fresco, width at the base 770 cm Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatica

7. One-Point Perspective Converging Lines Horizon Line Vanishing Point

8. The School of Athens (detail) 1509 Fresco Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican

9. The School of Athens (detail) 1509, Fresco Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican This figure in The School of Athens is a portrait of Michelangelo. He did not like Raphael. Michelangelo accused Raphael of copying his work on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, which he was painting at the same time.

10. The School of Athens (detail) 1509 Fresco Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican

11. The Alba Madonna, c. 1510, oil on panel transferred to canvas Overall (diameter): 94.5 cm (37 3/16 in.)

12. Portrait of Julius II 1511-12 Oil on wood, 108 x 80,7 cm National Gallery, London Pope Julius II died in 1513. He was succeeded by the Medici Pope Leo X, with whom Raphael also got on very well, and who continued to commission him.

13. Bindo Altoviti, c. 1515 oil on panel Overall: 59.7 x 43.8 cm (23 1/2 x 17 1/4 in.) This handsome young man was a wealthy Florentine banker and friend of the artist in Rome.

14. Madonna of Loreto (Madonna del Velo), 1509-10, Oil on wood, 120 x 90 cm, Musée Condé, Chantilly Raphael’s art most completely expressed all the qualities of the High Renaissance: Leonardo’s pyramid compositions and chiaroscuro. Michelangelo’s dynamic figures and contrapposto poses.