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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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St. George and the Dragon. From a drawing by Raphael in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. her deliverance. The name Raphello U. is written on the chargers blueand gold harness, and St. George himself wears the riband of the Garterwith the word Honi, on his knee. This finely coloured and spirited little 60 THE EARLY WORK OF RAPHAEL picture wis evidently painted to commemorate Duke Guidobaldosadmission into the ranks of this illustrious order. The insignia of theGarter, which had been conferred on his father, Duke Federigo, and wasnow bestowed on Guidobaldo, by Henry VII., was presented to the Dukeby the Abbot of Glastonbury and Sir Gilbert Talbot, when they weresent to Rome, in June 1504, to congratulate Pope Julius II. on hiselection in the name of the English monarch. The) newly electedknight proudly wore his Garter on the next St. Georges Day, andheld high festival on the 23rd of April, at Urbino.;^ It was customaryfor foreign princes on whom this honour was conferred to send anambassad

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