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Definition of Raphael

1. Noun. Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520).

Definition of Raphael

1. Proper noun. An archangel in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. ¹

2. Proper noun. (Hebrew male given name). ¹

3. Proper noun. (surname patronymic from=given names) ¹

4. Proper noun. An Italian Renaissance painter. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Raphael

Literary usage of Raphael

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This from 1513 to 1519, but Raphael had not time happiness, the joy of creating, ease, and fertility to make it his own handiwork, executing only the are ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The first "scenes" illustrate the same subject from Genesis which Michelangelo had just painted on the ceiling of the Sixtine Chapel. But Raphael does not ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In the book of Enoch Raphael is the angel of the spirits of man, ... In later Midrash Raphael appears as the angel commissioned to put down the evil spirits ..."

4. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"Painted Canigiani Holy Family, Raphael, Munich Gallery. about 1506 for Domenico Canigiani, of Florence ; passed into hands of the Medici, and given by Cosmo ..."

5. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"This was the origin of the letter* on the antiquities of Rome, addressed to Leo X., and ascribed first to Castiglione, later to Raphael, and by others to ..."

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