Urbino Legend
- patricklewisbaker
- Feb 26, 2020
- 1 min read
Updated: 4 days ago
The Spectator (World), February 26, 2020
At the time of his death on Good Friday, 1520, Raffaello Sanzio of Urbino was the most successful artist the world had ever seen. In terms of sheer skill, expert judges like the historian Paolo Giovio rated him third among the supreme trinity of Renaissance artists — after the stiffest imaginable competition, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. But in terms of worldly success, Raphael died as the unchallenged prince of artists.
He was the favorite artist of the greatest patron in Christendom, the Medici pope Leo X…