Note 102 — NUMERICAL CATALOGUE, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES (continued 4)
Reading edition
Francia's friendship with Raphael, on which art historians have based many theories and spun many interesting tales, is now discredited, the documents in question being comparatively modern forgeries (see p. 366 of Kugler's Italian Schools of Painting, 5th edition, revised by Sir A. H. Layard, 1887, elsewhere referred to as Layard).