Bill Sovereign

I am a sixty one year old grandfather spending his retirement years studying the famous artist Raphael Sanzio and all the artists who know her in the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty first centuries and it has come to my attention the editors of Wikipedia know her. Originally, I wanted to collect all of her pictures because she is a beautiful woman artist and I am an obsessive picture collector. In the process of collecting her pictures from the twentieth century and Cecilia Beaux, I found a beautiful allegory in Beau's book "Background with Figures," that led me to the Ecole de Julian, the pre-Raphaelites, the Prix de Rome and the Academy di Raphaello.

I have been reading computer manuals since I bought my first computer in 1980 and now-a-days if trial and error won't work, I don't bother with it. This thing is supposed to be WYSIWYG and I am retired of RTFMs. If my readers want to understand me, they can use my search words or contact me at printcollector2@aol.com. I do put an effort into spelling search words correctly with copy and paste. I realize I have been a pain in the posterior and a flamer. I have found an amazing story in Art History and I am trying to communicate herstory to the world the only way I can ... a flaming pain in the ass ... I know.

As Wiki knows, Raphael Santi Sanzio da Urbino, Sforza - Romano de Medici is a very famous woman in the plastic arts. I would not have gotten as far as I have without your help. Your articles have given me the history, the timeline and the search words of her story. If you have read any one of my posts, you know I can prove Raphael is a Catholic Saint. If you want to play the game, we can argue whether on not she is The Saint Raphael of catholic antiquity. See "Scena mitologica" in the Brera Pinacoteca. (It is no longer online.)

In my picture collecting, I have found her pictures can be put together into one story board because, actually, she is painting self portraits of her life from approximately 1480 to 1555 and her story has been carried by students of the Academy di Raffaello into the following centuries. Raphael's gender is unknown in literature and obvious in the visual arts. "For what it is worth," "What's happenin' here ain't exactly clear" in print and I can't help u with that. The dates of the pictures and the literature do not correspond! If I take the recorded date of her birth as 1483, Raphael is a wunderkind such as the world has never ever seen before or since. Detail is one obvious quality of plastic art. The more detail in the painting the higher the quality of the picture. All of Raphael's work is of the highest quality. Paulo Giovio says in "Elogia" she is a master of perspective. To which, I can only add atmospheric and linear perspective. And, as I have shown elsewhere, Raphael pigments are crystals from a pigment mine in Olgiasca-Malpensata (Piona), Colico, Lecco Province, Lombardy, Italy. (http://www.mindat.org/photo-124321.html) and I think she uses walnut drying oil because of the walnut trees around Lake Como.

With my last post, I have shot my wad. I think Saint Raphael is busy here and I cannot be expected to know what that means. I am just a fired up art he/rstorian and what's happen' next historians cannot be expected to know. I think u folks know what u are doing and u know I will be lurking in the background collecting bizillion dollar paintings and studying them in detail with Irfran View. Strangely, I post my web address and get no mail, so I post exacerbating messages wherever I can to people I think care. (It only matters if u care.) Most Americans do not care about what our children are thinking and maybe that is our basic problem. Our culture has been what we taught our children and what they did with it. We have gone from U.S. to what is in it for me. Women artists have been complaining about that for millennia.

Peace be with u Bill Sovereign printcollector2@aol.com Mission Specialist

P.S. http://www.wga.hu/html/l/leonardo/04/0monalis.html (from Mt. St. Primo)

Bill Sovereign (talk) 16:31, 1 November 2009 (UTC)