Example sentences for: raphael

How can you use “raphael” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One of Italy’s loveliest and most important small museums, its highlights include some outstanding sculptures by Bernini and Canova (whose portrayal of Napoleon’s sister as a reclining Venus is arguably the museum’s most famous attraction), as well as paintings by Raphael, Correggio, Titian, Caravaggio, Botticelli, Rubens, Dürer, and Cranach.

  • Works such as Raphael’s Bridgewater Madonna, a Rembrandt Self-Portrait, and Velázquez’s Old Woman Cooking Eggs are only three from a collection that includes pieces by Titian, Van Dyck, Rubens, Constable, Turner, and Vermeer.

  • Titian has a superbly sensual Venus of Urbino (1538), less Greek goddess than the prince’s mistress she probably was, and an equally disturbing Flora (1515; more works by Raphael and Titian can be found in the Palazzo Pitti).

  • Notable in the collections are a Fra Angelico triptych, Raphael’s La Fornarina (though the authorship is disputed), and works by Titian, Tintoretto, and El Greco.

  • A humorless pen-and-ink drawing of the same subject by Raphael that appears later in the show depicts Hercules staring down the Hydra.


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