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Raphael
1520 - Rome
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Rome, Italy · 1520 CE to 1520 CE
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Italy and Alpine Europe
Raphael dies in Rome
1520 · Rome, Italy
Rome turns artistic brilliance into sudden loss at the moment High Renaissance confidence still seems ascendant.
Raphael remains the central life here, while Michelangelo sharpens the sense of what Rome has lost and what artistic rivalry leaves behind.
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Raphael
1520 - Rome
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I am thirty-seven years old and something is wrong with my body.