Example sentences for: raphael

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

  • Raphael is well represented by a stately Veiled Woman (Hall 8, Jupiter), a classic Madonna of the Chair and Maddalena Doni (Hall 9, Saturn), deliberately imitating the pose of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, and Pregnant Women (Hall 10, Iliad).

  • This collection of nine centuries of paintings includes important works by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Perugino, Raphael’s Transfiguration (his last great work), Leonardo da Vinci’s unfinished St. Jerome, Bellini’s Pietà, and Caravaggio’s Descent from the Cross.

  • Crowning seven hills along the winding banks of the River Tiber, Rome has numerous different personalities: ancient Rome of imperial ruins; Catholic Rome of Vatican City and countless churches; the Renaissance city of Michelangelo and Raphael or the Baroque of Bernini and Borromini; and a modern metropolis of interminable traffic jams, fashionable boutiques and cafés, as well as factories and characterless apartment buildings that make up the post-war eye-sore suburbs.

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

  • In stark contrast to Raphael’s grand manner, seek out the gentle beauty of Fra Angelico’s frescoes in the Chapel of Nicholas V (Cappella del Beato Angelico).


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