Bidspirit auction | Raphael, Manner of: Portrait Stud

Raphael, Manner of: Portrait Stud - Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino Raphael (1483 - 1520) Manner of: Portrait Study. Charcoal on paper. Signed lower right, unframed. This drawing shares the full lips, full cheeks, and big, expressive eyes exquisite rendering from the shoulders on up with Raphael's Head of a Muse study for Parnassus, one of a series of frescoes he made for the Vatican. Raphael was one of the most prominent painters of the Italian Renaissance. He is known for religious figure and portrait painting and drawing, mythology.