Raphael Santi is one of the brightest representatives of the Renaissance. In his works he embodied the idea of the brightest and most sublime ideals of humanism. A younger contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, who lived a short but extremely eventful life, he absorbed and synthesized all the achievements of his great predecessors, creating his ideal of a beautiful, harmoniously developed person surrounded by majestic architecture or landscape. “The Divine Sanzio” is what the artist’s contemporaries called him. Raphael's talent and his brilliant works have delighted art connoisseurs since the 16th century. The multi-talented artist has gained fame in various fields of art. Raphael was known as a master of portrait and decoration, architect, monumentalist and poet, but he is still revered as the creator of the beautiful Madonnas.Cover: Raphael. "Sistine Madonna."