... celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. 'Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period'.1 When Raphael moved to Rome from his birthplace of Urbino, Pope Julius II immediately commissioned him to fresco the Pope's private library at the Vatican Palace. At the same time Michaelangelo, 30 years older than Raphael, was commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel. The influence of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling can be seen clearly in Raphael's work for this. The cartoons were one of his most important commissions. Raphael must have been aware of the proximity of his work to Michaelangelo's ceiling, and all his effort was put into making the cartoons perfect. The Sistine Chapel was built under Pope Sixtus IV and was dedicated in 1483. Located in the heart of the Vatican, it was reserved mainly for the Pope and ...

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