Excerpt from The History of Painting From the Fourth to the Early Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2 of 2
The acquisitions of those who extended the bounds of the empire are inherited by those who come after them. As in the middle of the fifteenth century Gozzoli had adopted the results of the investigations of Castagno and Uccello, and all the achievements of the next generation were used by Ghirlandajo; so the great profiteur of the sixteenth century is named Raphael.
In examining Raphael's portraits of himself one indeed feels a certain personal element of his style. This youth with the intelligent, sympathetic features, the bare neck, and the long artist's locks; with the pure, soft girlish eyes like those of Perugino's Madonnas, corresponds to Vasari's picture of Raphael's personality: "Every evil humour vanished when his comrades saw him, every low thought fled from their minds; and this was because they felt themselves vanquished by his affability and beautiful nature."
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