Raphael

The magnificently illustrated volumes in The Avenel Art Library have been compiled, edited, and produced by one of Europe's finest quality publishers. Each book contains 60 sumptuous illustrations, most of them in full color. Authoritative background texts on the lives and works of the artists and interpretative notes on each example of the art are included. The color plates have been carefully reproduced from selections of the artists' finest works. This entry in the series - "Raphael" by Maria Grazia Ciardo Dupré - looks at the brief life (37 years) and work of this youngest of the great revolutionary artists of the Italian Renaissance. Raphael was one of the world's most important portrait painters, and at his death left a legacy of masterpieces that would stun the world with their brilliance.