Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; April 6 or March 28, 1483April 6, 1520), known as
Raphael (, ), was an
Italian painter and
architect of the
High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the
Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with
Michelangelo and
Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.