He moved to Florence in 1504 to study art. Having been exposed to the aesthetics of Florentine painters, Raphael’s painting skills were elevated and refined. He adopted a certain style that emphasized musculature within the human form and a sense of tension created with intense compositions. Restoration Raphael's contemporary, Sebastiano of Venice, wrote to Michelangelo in July of the year the painting was completed to complain of the coloring of the work, suggesting that the figure looked smoky or made of iron because of the exaggerated contrast between the two sides. This may have been the hand of Giulio Romano, who according to art historian Eugène Müntz overused black in a heavy-handed fashion to "obtain a more powerful effect." To deal with coloring issues, the painting was restored in 1537–1540 by Francesco Primaticcio. Following further restoration in 1685, it was transferred from the original wood to canvas in 1753. See also List of paintings by Raphael References Anderson-Riedel, Susanne. “A French Raphael: Alexandre Tardieu's Engraving after Raphael's St. Raphael Vanquishing Satan (1806).” Art in Print, vol. 6, no. 1, 2016, pp. 27–30. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26408644. Accessed 14 Sept. 2020. Donnelly, Colleen. "Apocryphal Literature, the Characterization of Satan, and the Descensus Ad Inferos Tradition in England in the Middle Ages." Religion & Theology 24, no. 3-4 (2017): 321-49. Rose, G. B. (1898). Renaissance Masters: The Art of Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Titian, Correggio, and Botticelli. United Kingdom: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Vasari, G. (2018). The Life of Raphael. United States: J. Paul Getty Museum. Notes External links Paintings by Raphael 1518 paintings Paintings in the Louvre by Italian artists Angels in art