500th anniversary of Raphael's death

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, the renowned Italian Renaissance artist and architect, died on April 6, 1520, aged just 37. Raphael&work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition, and together with Michelangelo Buonarroti and Leonardo da Vinci, he completes the most famous trinity of great masters from the period. Given his short lifespan, Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and creating a vast body of work, much of which is to be found in the Vatican.