Response to text: Raphael

 Raphael

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1. Who is renowned as the greatest painters of the High Renaissance?

1. Donatello                                   b) Raphael

      c) Michelangelo                                      d) Leonardo 

2. Which painting is Raphael best known for? 

a) Mona Lisa                       b) David

c) Madonna                     d) Gabriel

3. Who were Raphael’s earlier mentors for his craft?

a) Leonardo da Vinci     b) Pietro Perugino

c) Giovanni Santi     d) Magia di Battista 

4. Why is Giovanni Santi significant in Raphael’s life?

→ The emphasis of Federico's court was more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments.

5. True or False:  Raphael had a pleasant childhood.  

a) True b) False

Explain your answer:

=> Raphael was the only child of three to survive infancy. His mother died in 1491 when Raphael was nine years old, and his father remarried to Bernardina, the daughter of a goldsmith, the following year. His father provided Raphael's early training as a painter.

6.  Why would Raphael choose to be an apprentice of Pietro Perugino?

1. Because Perugine was famous around the world for his work

2. He had an important commission working on the Sistine Chapel 

3. He had no one to select from.

4. Leonardo & Michelangelo didn’t like him

7. With the artwork from Leonardo, Donatello and Raphael, what does Renaissance art include?

1. Pointillism collage

b) comic art

c) human beauty, nature, religion deities

d) Painting, sculptures