page_title: Raphael
section_title: First Works
hierarchical_section_title: Raphael / Perugia / First Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Vision of a Knight Português: Visão de um Cavaleiro
context_page_description: Raffaello Sanzio, usually known as Raphael was a Renaissance painter and architect. With Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he is one of the three greatest painters of the High Renaissance.
  He is best known for his paintings of the Madonna and Christ Child and for his paintings in the Vatican in Rome, Italy.
context_section_description: The painting that is thought to be his earliest known work is a small picture called The Vision of a Knight. In this painting a knight lies asleep. In his dream there are two beautiful women. One woman, dressed in soft flowing clothes, offers him flowers. The other woman, dressed in dark clothing, offers the knight a sword and a book. The path behind the pretty woman runs beside a river. The other path leads up a steep mountain. Raphael was thinking about choices. Should the knight take the easy road, or should he try to change things?
  Other early pictures by Raphael are Three Graces, and Saint Michael.
  Raphael's first major work was The Marriage of the Virgin which was painted in 1504. It was influenced by Perugino's painting for the Sistine Chapel of Jesus giving the Keys to Saint Peter. It is now in the Brera Gallery in Milan, Italy.
caption: The vision of a knight, by Raphael
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