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Albrecht Durer paintings	Jan Van Eyck paintings	Pieter The Elder Bruegel paintings	Rogier Van Der Weyden paintings
Hans Memling paintings	Matthias Grunewald paintings	Jan Gossaert paintings	Hans The Younger Holbein paintings
Gerard David paintings	Lucas The Younger Cranach paintings	Jan Sanders Van Hemessen paintings	Hugo Van Der Goes paintings
Quentin Massys paintings	Master Of Flemalle paintings	Master Of Moulins paintings	Joos Van Cleve paintings
Maerten Van Heemskerck paintings	Petrus Christus paintings	Martin Schongauer paintings	Hans The Elder Holbein paintings
Master Of The St Bartholomew Altar paintings	Michael Pacher paintings	Jean Clouet paintings	Stefan Lochner paintings
Bernhard Strigel paintings	Bernaert Van Orley paintings	Konrad Witz paintings	Jan Provost paintings
Jacob Cornelisz Van Oostsanen paintings	Adriaen Isenbrant paintings	Joachim Patenier paintings	Geertgen Tot Sint Jans paintings
Aertgen Van Leyden paintings	Master Of The Legend Of St Ursula paintings	Jean Fouquet paintings	Jan Van Scorel paintings
Limbourg Brothers paintings	Master M S paintings	Master Of The Housebook paintings

"The life of Leonardo da Vinci" by John William Brown( published in 1828)

Of all the celebrated persons who at that time ornamented the Court of Rome, Raphael enjoyed the greatest share of the Pope's confidence and esteem, although he was more considerably indebted to his predecessor Pope Julius the Second. That Pontiff first brought him into notice at the recommendation of his kinsman Bramante da Urbino, who was then in his service, and employed him to paint a suite of rooms in the Vatican, the Stanze della Segnatura, including "The School of Athens", "Parnassus" and "The Disputation of the Holy Sacraments". He executed this commission with such extraordinary taste and skill, that the frescoes he then painted are generally considered superior to any of his subsequent productions under the reign of Leo the Tenth.  more

"The life of Leonardo da Vinci" by John William Brown( published in 1828)

Raphael's "School of Athens" is considered by some as a work of greater merit; but it should be recollected that a number of years had elapsed between the painting of these two pictures, and that great progress had been made in the arts during that period. Besides, it is scarcely just to Leonardo Da Vinci that Raphael should claim superiority from having profited by the improvements which his predecessor had intro- duced. It is a curious coincidence that the two invasions of Ifaly: by the French should have been equally detrimental to Da Vinci's two great works, although so many centuries intervened between them: as Monsignore Sabba da Castiglione, a noble Milanese, tells on it his "Ricordi" that "he saw the bowmen of Gascony make use of Da Vinci's model for the colossal statue of Francesco Sforza as a target," and many noble Milanese of the present day could tell on in their "ricordi," that they saw the troops of Republican France make a somewhat similar use of his magnificent picture of "The Last Supper".  more

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