Secret Genius

  Albrecht Durer was born in Nuremberg, Franconia, in 1471, in present day Germany. At the time it was the Holy Roman Empire. Nuremberg was important to him, he was born, and he died there and, after travelling, always returned  there. Durer's house, where he lived and worked from 1509 to 1528, is still there, near the Durer monument on Bergstresser . The Gothic style of the building has been carefully preserved and the house has been made into an interesting museum that gives insights into life in the early sixteenth century, and into the everyday life of Albrecht Durer, the most prominent Nuremberg artist. Albrecht father was a goldsmith and young Albrecht became his apprentice, he followed in his father footsteps. learning the art of shapes and engraving jewelry.  Albrecht Durer  Germany painter, printmaker  One of his greatest works he did in engravings is the intriguing "Knight, Death and the Devil", full of medieval fasci...

the school of Athens    raphael sanzio biography Italian Renaissance painter and architect Raphael became Perugino's apprentice in 1504. Living in Florence from 1504 to 1507, he began painting a series of "Madonnas." In Rome from 1509 to 1511, he painted the Stanza della Segnatura ("Room of the Signatura") frescoes located in the Palace of the Vatican. He later painted another fresco cycle for the Vatican, in the Stanza d'Eliodoro ("Room of Heliodorus"). In 1514, Pope Julius II hired Raphael as his chief architect. Around the same time, he completed his last work in his series of the "Madonnas," an oil painting called the Sistine Madonna. Raphael died in Rome on April 6, 1520. https://www.biography.com/artist/raphael Raphael was born Raffaello Sanzio on April 6, 1483, in Urbino, Italy. At the time, Urbino was a cultural center that encouraged the Arts. Raphael’s father, Giovanni Santi, was a painter for the Duke of Urbino, Feder...