[*176] This work is a copy of Raphael's picture by Lo Spagna. Cf. Berenson, The Study and Criticism of Italian Art, vol. II., p. 1-22.
[*177] The only work of Raphael's left in Perugia is the fresco of Christ and Saints, in St. Severo, 1505.
[178] The frequent contradictions of the many writers upon Raffaele throw a doubt upon most of his movements. Our rapid sketch has been compiled after a careful comparison of authorities, which we cannot stay to criticise or reconcile. *In 1504 Raphael went to Florence. The assertion that he accompanied Pinturicchio to Siena seems a mere invention of Sienese municipal vanity.
[179] Pietro Sodarini, Gonfaloniere for life. The original in Latin is printed in Bottari's Lettere sulla Pittura, I., 1. A loose expression might lead to the conclusion that Giovanni Sanzi was still alive, though he died in 1494; and on the strength of it, Rosini raises doubts as to the authenticity of the letter, or the identity of the painter, in which we cannot join.
[*180] Now in the National Gallery.
[*181] None of these pictures save the last seems to be from Raphael's hand.
[*182] This is not by Raphael.
[183] Fea, Notizie, p. 9. Raffaele's own letter of 1514 mentions that sum for each Stanza.
[184] Quarterly Review, No. cxxxi. pp. 20, 25, 32, 42.
[*185] Far from the parallel "suggesting itself," only a disorderly mind would make it. No comparison is thinkable between work that is absolutely different. One might as well compare a valley with the sea.