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Raphael
The Grand Duke's Madonna, oil painting by Raphael, 1505; in the Pitti Palace, Florence.
Raphael was the son of Giovanni Santi and Magia di Battista Ciarla.1
His father, Giovanni Santi, was a painter who provided Raphael with his initial instruction in painting and introduced him to humanistic philosophy at the court of Urbino. Raphael’s mother, Magia di Battista Ciarla, died in 1491, and his father passed away in 1494 when the artist was 11 years old.1