The Arts Society
From the Saxons to Mary Berry: A Visual History of the English Cookbook
They are being broadcast on the society's YouTube channel (youtube.com/c/theartssociety).
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Tarragona, Poblet, Vall de Boí, Barcelona
Date: 10th November
RAPHAEL–A Master In The Making. 500th anniversary of his death
Raphael is often referred to as one of the three giants of the High Renaissance in Italy alongside Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci yet his career was short-lived since he died tragically young, aged just 37. Nevertheless in this relatively short space of time he progressed from a series of modest initial commissions in and around his home town of Urbino to the covetous position of one of the leading artists at the court of Pope Julius II.
The Pope was without doubt the most important patron of the arts in Italy and commissioned some of the most sublime and influential works of the early 16th century from this young and gifted painter.
We explore how Raphael achieved this extraordinary rise in status, tracing the development of early works under the influence of Perugino and Pinturicchio to encounters with Michelangelo and Leonardo in Florence, and finally an examination of the later masterpieces of painting and drawing created in Rome
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