Great Artists

Channel 5 HD

4:35 AM to 5:00 AM

Wednesday 13 November

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Tim Marlow examines the work of Italian Renaissance painter Raffaello Santi, known better simply as Raphael, who was born in 1483 and achieved so much in his 37-year life that he was considered equal to Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. He was highly regarded for his many studies of the Madonna and Child, and artists adopted his idealised forms as the model of beauty until the end of the 19th century