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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,
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