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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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Palace, taken at the time of that monarchs death, cannot apply to theHermitage picture :— 126. Item. A table with the picture of St. George, his spear beingbroken and his sword in his hand. l The words exactly describe the first St. George, painted, it is sup-posed, about 1504, for the Duke of Urbino, and now in the Louvre.In that picture the Saint is armed with a sword, and the fragments of hisshattered spear lie on the ground at his horses feet, while in Raphaelssecond version of the subject, St. Georges sword is in his sheath and heslays the dragon with his spear. There can be little doubt that it was theLouvre picture which Castiglione presented to Henry VII. on his mastersbehalf, in November 1506, and that in its stead Raphael painted thesecond St. George, which remained in the palace at Urbino as a memorialof the Garter bestowed upon the Duke. This may have been the St.George by Raphael which Lomazzo saw in 1548 in Milan, and which is1 Harleian MS. 1419, in the British Museum.
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The Madonna del Prate. ■ By Raphael Belveaere Gallery, Vienna. 62 THE EARLY WORK OF RAPHAEL mentioned by Passavant as belonging to M. de la Noue and M. de Sourdis,but in any case it came during the last century, into the Crozat Collection,from which it was finally bought by the Empress Catherine II. of Russia.Henry the Eighths St. George, on the other hand, after being described inVan der Doorts catalogue of the Whitehall pictures as Raphaels St.George, a little picture, was sold after Charles the Firsts execution for thesum of ^150. It was bought by Cardinal Mazarin, one of the chiefpurchasers at the royal sale, and passed from his collection into theLouvre. If Raphael was still at Urbino in September 1506, he must haveseen Pope Julius II., as he stopped there on his way to conquerBologna, and witnessed the splendid festivities with which thatwarlike pontiff was received by the Duke and Duchess. But beforethe end of the autumn he was back at Florence, where, Vasari tells us,he once

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