Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, now generally known in English 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 Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. April 6, 1483 – April 16, 1520; died at 37. Alive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci, Martin Luther, Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Michelangelo. Wiki link