Raphael: Deposition
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Birth name Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
Born March 28, 1483(1483-03-28) or April 6, 1483(1483-04-06)
Urbino, Marche
Died April 6, 1520 (aged 37) Rome, Italy Nationality Italian Field Painting and archictecture
Movement High Renaissance

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520, better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

His Deposition of Christ draws on classical sarcophagi to spread the figures across the front of the picture space in a complex and not wholly successful arrangement.