Volume 30, Number 20 · December 22, 1983
Centenary of a Cipher
By John Pope-Hennessy
Raphael Vrbinas:II Mito Della Fornarina
edited by Dante Bernini
Editrice Electa (Milan), 82 pp.
Raphael in der Alten Pinakothek
by Hubertus von Sonnenburg
Prestel Verlag (Munich), 127 pp.
The Drawings of Raphael
by Paul Joannides
University of California Press, 271 pp., $95.00
Raffaello
by Konrad Oberhuber
Mondadori (Milan), 207 pp., Lire 32,000
Raphael
by Roger Jones, by Nicholas Penny
Yale University Press, 256 pp., $35.00
A century ago Raphael was a fact of life. 'Should you like to go to the Farnesina, Dorothea?' says Casaubon. 'It contains celebrated frescoes designed or painted by Raphael, which most persons think it worth while to visit.... He is the painter who has been held to combine the most complete grace of form with sublimity of expression. Such at least I have gathered to be the opinion of the cognoscenti.' The fourth centenary of Raphael's birth in 1883 was marked by the appearance of two great monographs. The first was the work of Eugene Müntz, the historian of High Renaissance Rome, and the second of Crowe and Cavalcaselle. 'The life of Raphael,' we read in the preface to the second book,
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