1483 |
APRIL 6: Birth of Raphael Sanzio in Urbino to Magia di Battista di
Nicola Ciarla and her husband, Giovanni Santi, painter. |
1491 |
OCTOBER 7: Raphael's mother dies. |
1494 |
AUGUST 1: Raphael's father dies. |
1500 |
MAY 13: Raphael is documented as being absent from Urbino and
is probably in Perugia with the painter Pietro Perugino.
DECEMBER 10: Together with Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, he is
commissioned to paint the altarpiece dedicated to S. da Tolentino
for the Church of S.Agostino in  di Castello. |
1501 |
SEPTEMBER 13: The altarpiece mentioned above is finished. |
1503 |
AUGUST 18: Pope Alexander VI (Borgia) dies.
NOVEMBER 1: Giuliano della Rovere elected pope, as Julius II. |
1504 |
Date on the Marriage of the (Brera Gallery, Milan) for S. Francesco
in, di Castello.
OCTOBER 1: Raphael is recommended to Piero Soderini, gonfaloniere
of the republic of Florence, in order to perfect his study of art in Florence,
in a letter by Giovanna da Montefeltro, widow of Giovanni della Rovere (brother of Julius II). |
1505 |
Date on the Ansidei Altarpiece (National Gallery, London). |
1506 |
SEPTEMBER 25: Pope Julius II arrives in Urbino, where he remains a few days. |
1507 |
Date on The Entombment (Borghese Gallery, Rome).
OCTOBER 11: Raphael is recorded in Urbino. |
1508 |
Date on The Large Cowper Madonna (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.).
APRIL 11: Guidobaldo, duke of Urbino, dies.
APRIL 14: Francesco Maria della Rovere is made duke of Urbino.
APRIL 21: Raphael, in Florence, writes to his uncle Simone Ciarla(brother of his mother) in
Urbino, indicating his wish for another letter of recommendation to the gonfaloniere of Florence.
MAY 10: Michelangelo begins painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
SEPTEMBER 5: Date of a letter written by Raphael from Rome to Francesco
Francia, Bolognese painter and goldsmith. |
1509 |
JANUARY 13: Raphael is paid for painting in the stanze, probably in advance for work in the Segnatura.
OCTOBER 4: Raphael is appointed writer of pontifical briefs, a position
that provides him with an income without actual duties. |
1511 |
Raphael finishes the frescoes in the Stanza della Segnatura. |
1512 |
Date painted beneath The Mass of Bolsena in the Stana d'Eliodoro. |
1513 |
FEBRUARY 20: Death of Julius II. |
1514 |
Date painted beneath The Liberation of Saint Peter from Prison in the Stanza d'Eliodoro.
APRIL 1: Raphal is made architect of Saint Peter's. Appointment confirmed on August 1.
JULY 1: Raphael writes to his uncle Simone Ciarla from Rome. |
1515 |
Date inscribed on a drawing for The Battle of Ostia, which Raphael had
apparently sent to the German master Albrecht 
JUNE 15: Date of the earliest mention of the cartoons for tapestries destined
for the Sistine Chapel.
AUGUST 27: Raphael is placed in charge of the ancient inscriptions in Rome.
NOVEMBER 8: Raphael is presumably in Florence to discuss plans for
the facade of the Medici church of S. Lorenzo. |
1516 |
Date inscribed on the mosaic decoration of the dome of the Chigi Chapel
in S. Maria del Popolo, Rome, designed by Raphael.
APRIL 19: The Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (The Louvre, Paris) is
mentioned as finished by this date, in a letter written by Pietro Bembo.
JUNE 20: The decoration of the stufetta of Cardinal Bibbiena is completed by this date.
DECEMBER 20: Raphael receives final payments for the tapestry cartoons
he had begun the year before. |
1517 |
Date beneath The Oath of Leo III in the Stanza dell'Incendio di Borgo.
JANUARY 19: Raphael undertakes to paint The Transfiguration for Cardinal
Giulio de' Medici, the future Pope Clement VII and cousin of Leo X,
in competition with Sebastiano del Piombo, who is to paint The Raising of Lazarus. |
1518 |
JANUARY 1: The frescoes in the Loggia of Psyche in the Villa Farnesina
commissioned by Agostino Chigi are mentioned as completed.
FEBRUARY 12: Raphael's Portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, mentioned as finished.
MAY 27: The painting now known as The Holy Family of Francis I and
the Saint Michael Vanquishing the Devil (both in the Louvre, Paris) are mentioned as finished.
JULY 2: Raphael has not yet begun to paint The Transfiguration, according
to a letter written by his rival, Sebastiano del Piombo, to Michelangelo.
SEPTEMBER 8: The Portrait of Leo X and Two Cardinals is mentioned
as finished and in Florence (now in the Pitti Gallery, Florence). |
1519 |
In a letter written during this year, perhaps with the help of Baldassare
Castiglione, Raphael discusses the map of ancient Rome he is to produce.
DECEMBER 27: Seven of the tapestries made from Raphael's cartoons
in Flanders are displayed in the Sistine Chapel. |
1520 |
APRIL 6: Raphael dies at the age of thirty-seven, to the day. He is buried in the Pantheon. |
