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RAPHAEL SANZIO d’uRBINO. 91
and Raphael was sent to study under Perugino, in
1495, being then twelve years old.
He remained in this school till he was nearly
twenty, and was chiefly employed in assisting his
master. A few pictures painted between his six-
teenth and twentieth year have been authenticated
by careful research, and are very interesting from
being essentially characteristic. There is, of course,
the manner of his master Perugino, but mingled
with some of those qualities which were particu-
larly his own, and which his after life developed
into excellence; and nothing in these early pic-
tures is so remarkable as the gradual improvement
of his style and his young predilection for his fa-
vourite subject, the Madonna and Child. The
most celebrated of all his pictures painted in the
school of Perugino was one representing the Mar-
riage of the Virgin Mary to Joseph—a subject
which is very common in Italian art, and called
Lo Sposalizio (the Espousals). This beautiful
picture is preserved in the Gallery at Milan.
There is a large and fine engraving of it by
Longhi, which can be seen in any good print-shop.
In the same year that he painted this picture
(1504), Raphael visited Florence for the first time.
He carried with him a letter of recommendation
from Giovanna, Duchess of Sora and sister of the
Duke of Urbino, to Soderini, vs ho had succeeded
the exiled Medici in the government of Florence.
and Raphael was sent to study under Perugino, in
1495, being then twelve years old.
He remained in this school till he was nearly
twenty, and was chiefly employed in assisting his
master. A few pictures painted between his six-
teenth and twentieth year have been authenticated
by careful research, and are very interesting from
being essentially characteristic. There is, of course,
the manner of his master Perugino, but mingled
with some of those qualities which were particu-
larly his own, and which his after life developed
into excellence; and nothing in these early pic-
tures is so remarkable as the gradual improvement
of his style and his young predilection for his fa-
vourite subject, the Madonna and Child. The
most celebrated of all his pictures painted in the
school of Perugino was one representing the Mar-
riage of the Virgin Mary to Joseph—a subject
which is very common in Italian art, and called
Lo Sposalizio (the Espousals). This beautiful
picture is preserved in the Gallery at Milan.
There is a large and fine engraving of it by
Longhi, which can be seen in any good print-shop.
In the same year that he painted this picture
(1504), Raphael visited Florence for the first time.
He carried with him a letter of recommendation
from Giovanna, Duchess of Sora and sister of the
Duke of Urbino, to Soderini, vs ho had succeeded
the exiled Medici in the government of Florence.