. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... nthe cause of the colonies, and was for sometime a surgeon in the revolutionary 1782 he was chosen to a scat in wrote a History of the Rev(dntion inSouth Carolina; a History of the Ameri-can Revolution; a Life of \; aHisti^rv of South Carolina; and a Historyof the United States. He .lied in 1815. RAPHAEL, RAFFAELLE, or RAF-FAELLO, whose real name was SAN-ZIO, was born, in 1483, at Urbinn, andwas the son of a painter, who placed himunder the tuition of Per
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... nthe cause of the colonies, and was for sometime a surgeon in the revolutionary 1782 he was chosen to a scat in wrote a History of the Rev(dntion inSouth Carolina; a History of the Ameri-can Revolution; a Life of \; aHisti^rv of South Carolina; and a Historyof the United States. He .lied in 1815. RAPHAEL, RAFFAELLE, or RAF-FAELLO, whose real name was SAN-ZIO, was born, in 1483, at Urbinn, andwas the son of a painter, who placed himunder the tuition of Perugino. The prin-ciples of colouring and chiaro oscuro heobtained from Fra Bartcdomeo, and heimproved his original style by studying theworks of da ^in(•i and Michael he was only twenty-five, he wasinvited to Rome by .Iiilius II. to embellishthe Vatican. Tlie three apartments of thatedifice, which he adorned by his pencil,j occupied him during nine years, and con-Itaii some of his fuiesl productions: th« RAY School of Athens is among the Cartoons, and the Transfiguration, REE 431. were among the last of his labours. Ra-phael was also an architect; succeededhis uncle Bramante as superintendent ofthe works of St. Peters; and designedseveral splendid edifices. Sculpture andpoetry likewise shared in his died April 7, 1520. General opin-ion, says Mr. Fuseli, has placed Rafla-elle at the head of his art; not because hepossessed a decided superiority over everyother painter in every brancli, but becauseno other artist eVer united witli his ownpeculiar excellence all the other parts ofthe art in an equal degree with him. RAPIN, Nicholas, a Fiencli writer,was born, in 15-10, at Fontenai-le-Comte;obtained an office in the parliament atParis; fought fur Henry IV. at the Ijatlleoflvry; and died in 1608. He wrotePoems; Latin Epigrams ; and other works:and had a large share in the compositionof the celebrated Menippean Satire. RAPIN, Renatus, a French Je
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