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Lecture 1 - Raphael: The Road to Fame
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Raphael (born 1483) grew up in the artistically refined ambit of Urbino, the son of court painter Giovanni Santi. According to Vasari, he was apprenticed to Perugino in Perugia, and although recent scholarship has questioned this, by the time he was twenty, Raphael was able to imitate Perugino’s fashionable style. Aged twenty-one, already with a string of Umbrian altarpiece commissions behind him, he established himself in Florence, where he produced some of ‘iconic’ early works, such as the Madonna of the Goldfinch and the Entombment. Raphael’s ambitions, however, led him to aspire to a larger stage, and in 1508 the twenty-six-year-old artist left Florence permanently, for Rome…
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Paula Nuttall is an art historian specialising in the Renaissance. She gained her PhD at the Courtauld Institute, on artistic relations between Flanders and Italy, a field in which she is an international authority. She began her lecturing career at the British Institute of Florence. Paula is Course Director of the V&A Medieval and Renaissance Year Course, and an Associate Lecturer at the Courtauld. She also lectures for the Arts Society (formerly NADFAS), the Royal Collection and the Art Fund. In 2013 she co-curated the exhibition Face to Face: Flanders, Florence and Renaissance Painting at the Huntington Art Collection in California and collaborated on the 2020 exhibition Van Eyck: an Optical Revolution at Ghent. Her numerous publications include From Flanders to Florence: the Impact of Netherlandish Painting, 1400-1500 (Yale University Press, 2004) and a chapter on the Northern Renaissance for the Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance.
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