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Raffaello Sanzio was an Italian Renaissance painter; architect and designer. His work along with that of his older contemporaries Leonardo and Michelangelo defined the High Renaissance style in central Italy. His posthumous reputation was even greater; for until the later 19th century he was regarded by almost all critics as the greatest painter who had ever lived mdash; the artist who expressed the basic doctrines of the Christian Church through figures that have a physical beauty worthy of the antique. He became the ideal of all academies (it was against his authority that the Pre-Raphaelites revolted); and today we approach him through a long tradition in which Raphaelesque forms and motifs have been used with a steady diminution of their values. He has been a major inspiration to great classical painters such as Annibale Carracci; Poussin; and Ingres. Raffaello was one of the finest masters of drawing in the history of art. The completing of a huge number of studies in a diversity of techniques was Raphaels typical practice. He first made rapid sketches; and then polished them for transfer. The number of his existing drawings is over 400; but this is only a small part of the amount he produced. There was a diversity of media and techniques in his time; and he explored all of them. Raphael acquired ability in the use of silverpoint; in which the metal tip of a stylus is worked on a prepared ground applied to the paper. He first used pen and ink broadly after 1505.