Raphael

Raphael was the artist who most closely resembled Pheidias. The Greeks said that the latter invented nothing; rather, he carried every kind of art invented by his forerunners to such a pitch of perfection that he achieved pure and perfect harmony. Those words, "e;pure and perfect harmony,"e; express, in fact, better than any others what Raphael brought to Italian art. From Perugino, he gat...