Eugène Müntz

 

 

 

 

 

Raphael

volume 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author: Eugène Müntz

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ISBN: 978-1-78525-712-4

Contents

Introduction

Umbria

Florence

Rome

Rome Stanze di Raffaello

Rome Madonnas and Portraits

Rome Vatican Decorations

Rome Final Years

Drawings Notebook

Biography

List of Illustrations

Introduction

In 1500 Raphael entered Perugino’s studio, and just three or four years later his reputation was firmly established throughout Umbria. It was from here that in October of 1504 Raphael arrived in Florence, with the firm intention of tempting fortune in the art-capital of Italy. It is certain that but for the instruction he received there, he would not have become the unrivalled master of design who was worthy to work for Julius II and Leo X, and who founded the Roman school. In 1508, Raphael settled in the Eternal City. If the neighbourhood of Florence offered a more perfect image of grace, if the site of Umbria tended to meditation, here, in the Campagna broken by bold mountain spurs and bounded by the dark masses of Monte Gennaro, Monte Cavo and Soracte, the only impressions were severity and nobility. And yet, imposing as was the work of nature, that of man rivalled it: the immense line of aqueducts and the splendid row of tombs along the Appian Way stood out in the landscape which was so fit a dwelling for a sovereign people.