The "Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione" and the "Madonna dell'Impannata Northwick"

The first volume of the series Raphael and His Time starts with a study of the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione in its cultural contexts confronting it with the Portrait of Antonio Tebaldeo . The second contribution focuses on Raphael's Madonna dell'Impannata , of which a new version has recently surfaced, and which is here presented as a workshop replica. Stress is laid on the technical analysis, which allows to identify the picture as a painting coming from the workshop of Raphael.