We’re delighted to release the last episode of Raphael: A Portrait during this festive long weekend. Part 5 is all about Raphael’s remarkable legacy and impact on so many artists up to the present day.
Raphael’s sudden death in 1520 meant that his workshop had to pick up even more of the slack for works already commissioned—but now without the vital, ongoing coordination of the master, both personally and professionally—and by far the most significant of all projects in the pipeline was the last of the four Vatican Stanze, the Hall of Constantine.
Raphael’s artistic influence was hardly limited to his workshop; given his astounding breadth, productivity and consequent fame, his impact over the ages has been nothing short of enormous, with the list of names of those falling under his sway reading like a veritable who’s who of the history of Western art: from Andrea del Sarto, Michiel Coxie, Peter Paul Rubens, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Rembrandt, Turner, Salvador Dalì and many mor…
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