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Comparing paintings of Raphael’s Christ on the Cross with four saints and Salvador Dali’s Christ of St. John of the Cross. Comparison factors looked into are each individuals influences throughout their lives from their background where they grew up and trained and how these different influences affected their finished styles and technique of their art. RAPHAEL AND HIS INFLUENCES Raphael from Urbino in Italy, the time of Rachael’s youth the Urbino was central to the intellectual, artistic core of Italy. This being a stimulating environment for a young person to mature. He had a comfortable upbringing from an intellectual family. His father Giovanni di Sante di Piero was a painter of some distinction influencing his career choice. Every circumstance of his youth encouraged him toward the arts. His surroundings of grand architecture such as the ducal palace built by Luciano Laurana for Duke of Montefeltro and decorated with valuables by Piero della Francesca among others and the peaceful countryside surrounding would have been sources of inspiration. His father died in 1494 trusting Evangelista di Pian di Mileto his son. Evangelista was an unpretentious artist and an admirer of Perugino and in 1495 Timoteo Viti who rec