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    Raffaello Sanzio

    Birth: 4-6

    Death: 4-6

    Birth Date Prefix: 1483

    Death Date Prefix: 1520

    Nickname: Raphael

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Found in 18410000Conversation_JohnCarlin_WHS_FMS1.
"master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur."

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Found in 18410000Conversation_JohnCarlin_WHS_FMS1. "master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur."
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