The very powerful legacies of Vasari’s mythicising biographies and the heroicised personalities that Renaissance artists created for themselves have been dealt with in various ways, of which the following is a brief and highly selective review. From this you should get a sense of the varied landscape of scholarship on Raphael, shaped by a long history of reception and recent challenges to it.
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