Raphael the Artist and Architect
American Academy in Rome, 2013-14
These hand drafted graphite drawings of the conceptual ideas of the renowned Renaissance architect and artist, Raphael Sanzio, was the subject of my research when I was a Visiting Artist/Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. His acute powers of observation as an artist and his prescient concepts of architectural composition remain an enduring standard for insightful thinking today.
![Palazzo Alberini](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b69e6854eddec6c5017e474/1536688913685-185L9FILYPVNCLLZEXHE/BlackRaphael_PalazzoAlberini_finished.jpg)
![Pantheon - Cartoon](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b69e6854eddec6c5017e474/1536870456095-E4I8IX5LH4IKMZ3CP5XN/BlackRaphael_Pantheon_Cartoon.jpg)
![Pantheon - Finished](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b69e6854eddec6c5017e474/1536688915060-6YICJICMN4ASDENV353R/BlackRaphael_Pantheon_finished.jpg)
![Sant' Eligio Degli Orefici](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b69e6854eddec6c5017e474/1536688915099-WHJMZ6DVUHSUJHFV8MYN/BlackRaphael_SantEligioDegliOrefici_final.jpg)
![Chigi Chapel - Conception](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b69e6854eddec6c5017e474/1536688912527-6W0WBD1LA2O4MR052J18/BlackRaphael_Chigi_Concept_finished.jpg)
![Chigi Chapel - Perception](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b69e6854eddec6c5017e474/1536688912763-P7T6XQ43I0OJYEI0BSS1/BlackRaphael_Chigi_Perception_Finished.jpg)