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raffaello sanzio

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Raph⋅a⋅el

  [raf-ee-uhl, rey-fee-, rah-fahy-el]
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–noun
1. (Raffaello Santi or Sanzio) 1483–1520, Italian painter.
2. one of the archangels.
3. a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “healing of the Lord.”
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Raphael [(raf-ee-uhl, ray-fee-uhl, rah-fee-el)]

A sixteenth-century Italian painter. A contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he is known for his beautiful and gracious Madonnas and The School of Athens (see Plato's Academy).

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Word Origin & History

Raphael 
masc. proper name, Biblical archangel (Apocrypha), from L.L., from Gk. Hraphael, from Heb. Rephael, lit. "God has healed," from rapha "he healed" + el "God." Raphaelesque (1832) is in ref. to painter Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520). See Pre-Raphaelite.
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