The majority of the thirteen pictures which in the Louvre are
unreservedly catalogued under the great name of Raphael (1483-1520)
certainly belong to his third or Roman period, and in many of them
he obviously received a large amount of assistance from his pupil,
Giulio Romano. It is this fact, no doubt, which has led the compiler of
the Catalogue to place the “Divine Urbinate” in the Roman school. It
will, however, be readily admitted that such a classification is both
arbitrary and misleading.
[Illustration:
PLATE VI.—PERUGINO
(1446-1523)