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Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Kathleen Christian (Section 1.5 and Section 2) and Steve Edwards (Section 1.1–1.4). Edited by Leah R. Clark.

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© Scala, Florence.

Images

Figure 1: © National Gallery / Scala, Florence.

Figure 2: © Scala, Florence.

Figure 3: ©Villa Farnesina / Bridgeman Images.

Figure 4: © Scala, Florence.

Figure 5: © Courtesy The National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Figure 6: © Alte Pinakothek / Bridgeman Images.

Figure 7: © Scala, Florence.

Figure 8: © Musée du Louvre / Bridgeman Images.

Text

Activity 1: entry on Raphael: Chapman, H. (n.d.) ‘Raphael’, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Oxford Art Online [Online], Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Activity 2: extracts from Shearman, J. (2003) Raphael in Early Modern Sources (1483–1602), 2 vols, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, vol. 1, pp. 548, 572, 575, 579 (trans. K. Christian).

Activity 5: extract from Shearman, J. (2003) Raphael in Early Modern Sources (1483–1602), 2 vols, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, vol. 1, pp. 180–1 (trans. K. Christian).

Activity 5: extract from Dolce, L. (1554) Lettere di diversi eccellentiss. huomini, raccolte da diversi libri: tra le quali se ne leggono molte, non piu stampate, Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, pp. 226–8 (trans. K. Christian).

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