Note 68 — Chapter VI · THE GOLDEN AGE RAPHAEL AND MICHELANGELO
Reading edition
Raphael. Hermann Grimm’s two volume Life of Raphael is still valuable for background. Among the numerous popular books in English none is outstanding. Henry Strachey’s Raphael, in “Great Masters of Art,” is good, and so are Julia Cartwright’s two monographs: The Early Work of Raphael and Raphael in Rome, in the Portfolio Series, London, 1895.
For Raphael’s participation in the frescoes of the Cambio it seems to me that Professor Venturi, in Storia dell’ Arte Italiana, Vol. VII, part 2, makes out only a plausible case.
Reproductions of all of Raphael’s works in Klassiker der Kunst, No. I., Raphael, Stuttgart and Leipzig.
Among the innumerable essays on Raphael none is more understanding than John La Farge’s, in Great Masters, New York, 1903.