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Raphael

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Style is the perfection of good sense (John Stuart Mill)

During this period he also designed ten tapestries illustrating the acts of Christ's apostles for the Sistine Chapel; the cartoons, or drawings, for these are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Raphael also devised the architecture and decorations of the Chigi Chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo and the decorations of the Villa Farnesina, which include the Triumph of Galatea (c. 1513).

In addition to these major undertakings, he executed a number of easel paintings, including a portrait of Julius II (1511-1512), a series of Madonnas, and the world-famous Sistine Madonna (c. 1514, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden). Raphael died in Rome on his 37th birthday, the April 6, 1520. (After Microsoft Encarta 1996)

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