Raphael Santi (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Raphael Santi First as to the Umbrian background, - environment being of much greater import as a creative influence during an artist's youth than in any of the periods of maturity. You find it in all fidelity in the pages of Dennistoun's Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, where the facts are wrought to such a structure of life as finally to recapture something of its swift vigour and simplicity. You find it in Vespasiano, the Duke Federigo's librarian and biographer, who has preserved something of the high security and lettered ease of the court of the great condottiere, and again as drawn by a master hand in Castiglione's Courtier a 'portrait in painting, ' so he styles it, 'of the Court of Urbino: not of the handiwork of Raphael or Michael-Angelo, but of an unknown painter, and that can do no more but draw the principal lines, without setting forth the truth with beautiful colours, or making it appear by the art of Perspective that it is not.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.