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Raphael

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Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)

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Let us now assume a higher and more agreeable point of view, and consider the talent with which Raphael was so singularly gifted. Born with the happiest natural gifts, at a time when art combined the most conscientious labor, attention, industry, and truth, the young man was already led by excellent masters to the threshold, and had only to raise…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe's literary essays
Names Raphael twice; opens on Raphael.
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Raphael, the Painters tell us, is the best of all Portrait-painters withal. No most gifted eye can exhaust the significance of any object. In the commonest human face there lies more than Raphael will take away with him.
Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Names Raphael twice.
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"Pray," said Candide, "by what master are the first two of these?" "They are Raphael's," answered the senator. "I gave a great deal of money for them seven years ago, purely out of curiosity, as they were said to be the finest pieces in Italy; but I cannot say they please me: the coloring is dark and heavy; the figures do not…
Voltaire, Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume
States what Raphael is; names Raphael.
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