Passavant, Johann David: Raphael of Urbino and his father Giovanni Santi (London , New York: MacMillan and Co., 1872)

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universally acknowleciZeci to lie lire

is now
greatest genius of modern painting, and lire lristorv of
Iris life is inrportg.nl even to lire lristorzr of art.
^.ncl ^el, lire numerous dio^raplries of R.aplraei tlrgl
irave lreen written since lire linre of Vasari, are fur from
LLlisf/inA lire wants of lire present lime, lire/ dear no truce of profound
stuci^ or of tirut judicious and independent criticism rvlriclr glone gre girls
to make us reglise lire past. Ilrere irgve been no deep researcdes, no
fresir discoveries, and g complete and trutiriui irio^rgpir^ of liris exlrgor-
dinar/ man is stili wanting.
rapid exLminglion of lire works pudiislred on R.aplrael will straw
Irow insufficient lire/ gre.
lire most gncienl of tlrese is tlrat written in Isatin d/ kaoio 6iovio.
It appeared for tire first time in tire " Lloris. della I^ettergtura Itgiigng,"
of Oiroiamo liradoscdi. It contains dut few facts, and tire gutlror, for
want of artistic knowledge, Iras fallen into man/ errors? kaoio Oiovio
deserves, Irowever, tire gratitude of ail friends of art, for it was ire wiro
induced Vasari to write iris " lkives of Italian Artists."
Oior^io Vasari, in iris important work (" Vite cle' piu eccellenti ^.rclri-


> " R.afael von tlrdino uncl ssin Vater Oiovanni Lanti." I.sipriA, iLzy, in 8vo, rvitlr
atlas in fol.
° Uris rvas no doulrt intended to de included in tire rvorlc of ?. Qiovio, entitled
" Illustriunr viroruin vitse," pudlislred at Florence in 1549. (tlote l>^ Lacroix.)
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