Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #91: Raphael (1483-1520) Raphael (1483-1520) was a High Renaissance Italian painter and architect. He along with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci formed the trinity of great masters of that period. His art reflects a rediscovery of the underlying principles of Greco-Roman art and its emphasis on balance, harmony and order. More fundamentally, however, his work represents a celebration and idealization of nature, man and worldliness -- a revolutionary break from the dominant Christian values which condemned or downplayed such things. Raphael, along with the other great masters, gave the world a beautiful view of life, a vision which had been lost from Europe for over 1,000 years. Go to #92: Ray Kroc Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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