Raphael
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Summary
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- General readers interested in Renaissance painting who want an initial acquaintance with Raphael and his works
- Art students preparing for gallery visits or copying classical paintings who need background knowledge
- Readers accustomed to English-language art criticism who wish to read eBooks in spare moments
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting abundant high-resolution plates or systematic visual analysis; the book is primarily textual commentary
- Specialist art historians requiring the latest scholarship and detailed annotation
Reading tips
- Read the biographical chapters first to establish a timeline, then work through the work-by-work chapters alongside an illustrated catalogue
- Note the titles of major works as you read, then look up high-resolution images afterward to verify
- The English text is not long; read one chapter a day and use notes to trace the evolution of his style
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
Paul George Konody (1872–1933) was a Hungarian-born British art critic and art historian. Born in Budapest, he later settled in London and wrote for many years for the Daily Mail and The Observer. An authority on the authentication of Renaissance art, he exposed the claim by Bode that the bust Flora was by Leonardo da Vinci, and he was influential in both connoisseurship and criticism. Four of his works are held in this collection: Delacroix, Chardin, Raphael and Filippo Lippi. They centre on major European painters and combine critical biography with appreciation. He also wrote lives of Raphael and Velázquez. His writing addresses general readers and stresses stylistic analysis and the broader context of art history. Public information on his life and work is limited, and the present account rests on the facts given above.
