Note 67 — Chapter VI · THE GOLDEN AGE RAPHAEL AND MICHELANGELO

The Cambio frescoes. While it is inherently likely that Raphael worked on these frescoes, Prof. Venturi’s plea for Raphael’s authorship of God, the Prophets and Sibyls, Storia, Vol. VII, pt. 2, p. 828 ff. depends largely on the shaky evidence of drawings attributed arbitrarily to Raphael.

Raphael and Michelangelo. From the point of view of pure style the best treatment of these artists and of the High Renaissance is that of Heinrich Wölfflin in The Art of the Italian Renaissance, New York, 1913. It is a book that every student should read and if possible own. Mr. Berenson’s treatment of space composition, in the introduction to Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, is perhaps his finest achievement in criticism.