Harford, John Scandrett: The life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti: with translations of many of his poems and letters : also memoirs of Savonarola, Raphael,, and Vittoria Colonna (Vol. 1) (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858)

316 LIFE OF MICHAEL ANGELO.

CHAPTER XV.
A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND WORKS OF RAPHAEL, AND
A COMPARISON BETWEEN HIS GENIUS AND THAT OF MICHAEL
ANGELO.
1483-1520.
In the year 1520, Raphael was cut off in the prime
of youthful manhood, and in the zenith of his
brilliant fortune. That two such artists as he and
Michael Angelo should have been employed at one
and the same time within the palace of the
Vatican, and within a few yards of each other,
upon works of such transcendent reputation, is so
remarkable an event, that we feel impelled, after
all that has been said of the one, to pay, before
parting from the other, a passing tribute to his im-
perishable name and memory.
" Purpureos spargam flores et fungar inani
Munere." *

* In addition to my own intimate and repeated studies of
the works of Raphael, I have examined, and in various in-
stances profited by, in drawing up this sketch, Platner's Dis-
sertation on his Genius, his Life by Passavant (with the aid of
a German friend), that also by Sir Charles Eastlake, in his
" Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts," and the
very able notice of him by Kugler in his Handbook, to say
nothing of Vasari and various others.