Giovanni Santi (c. 1435 - 1494)

• Was an Italian painter and decorator.
• He was the father of Raphael.
• Santi was born in 1435 at Colbordolo in the Duchy of Urbino.
• He studied under Piero della Francesca.
• He was court painter to the Duke of Urbino and painted several altarpieces.
• Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico da Montefeltro.
• His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well.
• In 1483, Santi's son Raphael was born.
• Santi died in Urbino in 1494.
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