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Title: The early work of Raphael
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ady, Julia Mary Cartwright, d. 1924
Subjects: Raphael, 1483-1520
Publisher: London : Seeley and Co., Ltd. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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are evident in his pupils early productions. The first undoubted work of Raphael, painted in all probabilitywhen he was about sixteen, and still studying at Urbino under TimoteoViti, is the Vision of a Knight. This famous little picture, which,together with the pen-and-ink drawing from which it was traced, is nowone of the treasures of the National Gallery, came originally fromUrbino into the Borghese Collection, when the Duchy was annexed tothe Papal See. The subject breathes the very essence of that courtlyand romantic atmosphere which haunted the palace of Urbino, and maywell have been inspired by the Duchess Elizabeth herself. This accom-plished lady, we are told by a sixteenth-century writer, the architect Serlio,was the first to honour the son of her old friend Giovanni Santi withher patronage, and Raphael may have painted this little allegory forthe decoration of her chamber, just as Costa and Mantegna paintedtheir pictures of Parnassus and the Muses for Isabella dEstes grotto
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Portrait cj Timcteo Viti. By himself. British Museum. i4 THE EARLY WORK OF RAPHAEL at Mantua. The story of the choice which each traveller who setsout on the journey of life has to make between work and idleness,between duty and pleasure, may have been taken from the Greekmyth of Hercules or from the romance of some Renaissance poet. Theyouthful knight lies asleep upon his shield under a laurel-tree, betweentwo fair maidens. The one, simply robed in purple, offers him abook and a sword ; the other, gaily attired in a pale-blue robe withcherry-coloured sleeves, and wearing a coral string twisted in her hairand round her neck, holds out a myrtle spray, and seeks to lure himinto her smooth and pleasant paths. Every detail in the picture—theattitude of the two maidens, the forms of their hands and faces, thefall of their short skirts, the handkerchief twisted round their heads,the very shape of the trees and rocks in the background, recall TimoteoVitis works, and prove the young painter

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