Lev raphael biography renaissance

  • LEV RAPHAEL: This is called “The Borgias and Their Enemies.” It's by Christopher Hibbert.
  • Lev Raphael is the author of the satirical Nick Hoffman mystery series along with seventeen other books in many genres.
  • Lev Raphael is the author of 26 books in genres from memoir to mystery.

    • •

    Raphael and everyone: 7 stories about the artist's relationship with his famous contemporaries

    PRO accounts for artists

    Sales via Facebook and Instagram store

    No ads on web pages

    Artworks mailing lists

    Sales of reproductions and digital copies

    Read more

    PRO accounts for artists

    Sales via Facebook and Instagram store

    No ads on web pages

    Artworks mailing lists

    Sales of reproductions and digital copies

    Read more

    Artsmarts •

    Who was Raphael’s friend,and who was his enemy? And what did the artist have to do with those for whom he designed chapels,painted loggias and whom he depicted in his paintings and frescoes?

    We can count Raffaello Santi’s self-portraits, excluding the questionable ones,on one grabb. But what is surprising here is that in his single mature self-portrait(if we can speak of maturity,considering that he died at 37), Raphael painted himse

    •

    When one is painting one does not think.

    Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

    Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his early death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome, much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his coll

    •

    Growing up in Rome in the mid-19th century, John Singer Sargent could not have asked for a better informal education for the world-class artist he would become. He was surrounded by museums overflowing with great art and just as important, his ebullient, energetic American mother hosted gatherings of painters, sculptors, poets and writers. 

    Sargent’s mother was obsessed with European culture and may have modeled that enthusiasm for her son.  She also was an inveterate traveler “for her health,” so the family traipsed all over Western and Central Europe with young Sargent watching, studying, sketching–whether in museums or on mountain tops.  It’s fascinating to read about the challenging mountaineering he did in Switzerland with his father, something you might not associate with a man who later spent so much time in salons and studios.

    This was a period when living in Europe cost much less than in the U.S. and  Americans like his mother were ravenous f

  • lev raphael biography renaissance