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Raphael: Pontifical Academy Issue 
Scott 87 (1944)</center>	 			 			 			 			 			 			 			 			 			 			 			 			 			 			 			 			 
 
Today marks the anniversary of both the birth and death of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, who today is remembered simply as Raphael. An Italian painter and architect, he, along with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, make up what has been called the “Trinity of Great Masters" of the High Renaissance.
 
Raphael was born on April 6, 1483 (although some accounts list his birth date as March 28) in Urbino in the Marche region of Italy. His father, Giovanni Santi, was also an artist. Following his father's death when he was eleven, Raphael may have begun to help manage the family workshop. He went on to train in the workshop of the master Pietro Perugino and, by the age of 17, he was described as a "master". He took on projects across Northern Italy until, in 1508, he moved to Rome at the invitation of Pope Julius II to work in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. In addition to his work at the Vatican, he undertook several other commissions in the Rome and also began to work as an architect. He was at the height of his powers when he died on Good Friday, April 6, 1520. Speculation as to the cause of his death at the young age of 37 abounds, including exhaustion, an infectious disease, or bloodletting to address an acute illness.
 
Despite his short life, Raphael leaves behind an enormous body of work, dating from his early years in Umbria and Florence, and culminating in his most productive and acclaimed time in Rome. His most well-known works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, works of his career. Perhaps his best-known work is “The School of Athens”, found in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura:
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"The School of Athens" by Raphael 
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Among the many contemporaries Raphael used as models for figures in this monumental work, the fresco includes Leonardo da Vinci as elder Plato (entering the scene with the young Aristotle as the two central characters), Michelangelo as the brooding Hericletus (his head resting on his hand in the lower left center of the fresco) and Raphael himself (pictured in a black hat with the group at the far right, next to the bottom of the column).
 
Raphael and his works are represented voluminously on the stamps and postal history of the Vatican, beginning in 1944. A search of the stamps on the VPS website under the Stamp Database Search is a worthwhile review and provides an appreciation of his impact on Vatican philately. Here is a sampling of Vatican City stamps featuring the works of the great Raphael:
 
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Raphael Sanzio: 5th Centenary of Birth Scott 725-728 (1983)
 
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Christmas 1959 
Scott 266-268
 
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'The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament' 
Scott 1422-1425 (2009)
 
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'Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple' 
Scott 1480-1481 (2011)
 
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Raphael Madonnas 
Scott 1497-1498 (2012)
 
<img height='375' src='http://vaticanstamps.org/VPS/images/296/1517M.jpg'> 
Year of Faith: 'Theological Values' 
Scott 1517 (2013)
 
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'Mass of Bolsena' 
Scott 1518 (2013)
 
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Raphael: 5th Centenary of Death 
'Transfiguration of Jesus' and Self-Portrait 
Scott 1744 and 1744b (2020)
 
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Raphael Sanzio: 5th Centenary of Birth Aerogramme (1983)</center>
 
REFERENCES: 
<li>Vatican Notes, Volume 32, Number 2, pages 1 and 11, 1983, <a href = 'https://vaticanstamps.org/vaticannotes/idisplay2.php?p=190-01&r=0'>New Issues Honor Raphael</a> 
<li>Wikipedia, <a href = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael'>Raphael</a> 
<li>Vatican Philatelic Society website, www.vaticanstamps.org, Stamp Database Search

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