Chapter 16, Student Web Activities, Glencoe World History: The Human Experience: The Early Ages, Glencoe, 2003

Social Studies, Glencoe World History: The Human Experience: The Early Ages

Chapter 16: Renaissance and Reformation
"The Life of Raphael"

Introduction
You have read about the great Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci and other artistic geniuses of the time, such as Michelangelo and Raphael. You learned that Raphael died young, on his 37th birthday, and was mourned throughout Rome. Yet Raphael accomplished much in his brief life.

Destination Title: WebMuseum, Paris: Raphael Web site

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Directions
Start at the WebMuseum, Paris: Raphael Web site.

Scroll down the Web page, reading and analyzing the information about Raphael. [NOTE: A tondo is a round painting.]
Answer the following questions.

1. For what works is Raphael best known?

2. Which painters does the writer suggest influenced Raphael's work?

3. What meaning does the writer find in the composition of the Alba Madonna and why?

4. Using your own words, restate what the writer means by the statement beginning "Raphael is one of the most acute of all portraitists" and ending "yet courteously colluding [conspiring] with whatever image the ego would seek to have portrayed."