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Title: Raphael
A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The
Painter With Introduction And Interpretation

Author: Estelle M. Hurll

Editor: Estelle M. Hurll

Release Date: September 19, 2006 [EBook #19314]

Language: English

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[Illustration: RAPHAEL SANZIO D' URBINO (BY HIMSELF)
_Uffizi Gallery, Florence_]

Masterpieces of Art

RAPHAEL

A COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN PICTURES

AND A PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER

WITH INTRODUCTION AND

INTERPRETATION

_EDITED BY_

ESTELLE M. HURLL

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

Copyright, 1899, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO

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PREFACE

The object of this collection of prints is to introduce the student to
Raphael through the pictures which appeal directly to the imagination
with some story interest. With this characteristic as the leading
principle of choice, the variety of subjects is perhaps as wide as the
conditions admit. No attempt is made to represent all the sides of the
painter's art; his portraits are ignored and his Madonnas inadequately
represented, in order to give place to pictures which awaken as many
points of interest as possible. Within these narrow limits Raphael, as
an illustrator and a composer, is even in these few pictures clearly
represented.

Had choice been limited to pictures painted throughout by Raphael
himself, the value of the collection would have been seriously
affected, as some of the master's most interesting works were handed
over to his pupils for execution. Our list,