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Article: The Cambridge Companion to Raphael.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2006
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Marcia Hall, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Raphael.
Cambridge Companions to the History of Art. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xv + 415 pp. + 39 b/w pls. index. illus. map. bibl. $95. ISBN: 0-521-80809-X.
In Raphael's lifetime and in the following centuries, the critical histories of the artist and of his art have defined and reflected the presumed ideals of the visual arts in the Renaissance. According to these accounts, the courtly grace and beauty of his pictorial compositions, distilled through an interest in ancient visual culture, embodied the paradigm, if not the pinnacle, of Renaissance art. As scholars within the past ...