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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Moctezuma II, Raphael, Cuitlahuac, Pier Gerlofs Donia, Selim I, William Dunbar, Bartolome Ordonez, Anne Hastings, Countess of Shrewsbury, Kunigunde of Austria, Mateus, Zakariyya al-Ansari, Agostino Chigi, Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, Sten Sture the Younger, Ippolito d'Este, Bernardo Dovizi, Raphael Regius, Idris Bitlisi, Micha Twarog of Bystrzykow, Claude de Seyssel, Hosokawa Sumimoto, Erik Johansson Vasa, Francesco Albertini, Hemming Gadh, Giacomo Filippo Foresti, Komparu Zempo, Joan Llorenc, Henri Estienne, John Ernley, Gian Paolo Baglioni, Henrique da Veiga de Napoles, Louis, Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon, Jan Lubra ski, Petar Berislavi, Cacamatzin, Johannes Despauterius, John Penny, eyh Hamdullah, Patrick Hamilton of Kincavil, Juraj i gori, Georg Glockendon, Sultan Ali Mashhadi, Swob Sjaarda, Edmund Denny, Marx Reichlich, Kojima Toyoharu, Meiler Bourke, Giovanni Luca Barberi, Visunarat. Excerpt: Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 - April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop, and despite his death at 37, a large body of his work remains. Many of his works are found in the Apostolic Palace of The Vatican, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was self-designed, but for the most part executed by the workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifet...
