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Raphael was the youngest of the brilliant revolutionary artists of the Italian Renaissance. Before the age of twenty, he had achieved the status of a great master. And though Raphael lived for only thirty-seven years, he painted for Italy’s most demanding patrons, the Medici in Florence and the popes in Rome. He also studied with two of the most formidable artists in the history of Western art, Leonardo and Michelangelo. This book presents a short summary of Raphael’s artistic works and development, followed by sixty-two full-page, mostly color, prints of his works.