Raphael

	"While Raphael was living in Florence, Agnolo Doni commissioned him to paint the portraits of himself and his wife." I-289 Portraits of Agnolo and Maddalena Doni
	"For Domenico Canigiano, Raphael painted a picture of Our Lady, with the Infant Jesus welcoming a little St John brought to him by St Elizabeth who is gazing with a most animated expression at St Joseph, who stands there with both hands resting on a staff and inclines his head towards her, as if praising the greatness of God and marvelling that at her age she should have such a young child." I-289 Virgin and Child with St John, St Elizabeth and St Joseph (Canigiano altarpiece)
	"Madonna Atalanta Baglioni begged him to consent to paint a panel picture for her chapel in the church of San Francesco...When Raphael was recalled to Perugia, he first of all finished [her] painting. In this inspired painting there is a dead Christ being carried to the sepulchre...One sees the swooning figure of Our Lady and the graceful heads of other weeping figures, notably St John.." I-290 Entombment
	"After he had finished this work, Raphael went back to Florence where the Dei, a Florentine family, comissioned him to paint an altarpiece for their chapel in Santo Spirito." I-291 Madonna del Baldacchino
	"He almost completed the sketch for [that] work, but in the meantime he did a painting which was subsequently sent to Siena. This picture remained with Domenico Ghirlandaio, so that he could finish a piece of blue drapery, when Raphael left Florence." I-291 La belle Jardiniere
"At that time Bramante of Urbino, who was working for Julius II, because he was distantly related to Raphael wrote to him saying that he had persuaded the Pope to build some new apartments where Raphael would have the chance to show what he could do." Vasari's account of Raphaels's work in the Stanze is very muddled. In brief: Raphael was working in the Stanza della Segnatura by 1509. Here, the two chief frescoes are the School of Athens and The Disputation concerning the Host. In the Stanza d'Elidoro, the chief subjects are The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple, The Liberation of St Peter, and The Miracle of the Mass at Bolsena.
	"After he had been welcomed very affectionately by Pope Julius, Raphael started to paint in the Stanza della Segnatura a fresco showing the theologians reconciling Philosophy and Astrology with Theology, in which are portraits of all the sages of the world shown disputing among themselves in various ways." I-291 School of Athens, Stanza della Segnatura
	"Among them is Diogenes with his cup, lying deep in thought on the steps; this is a finely conceived figure which deserves high praise for its beauty and the appropriate negligence of its clothing." I-292 Diogenes (School of Athens)
	"There, also, are Aristotle and Plato, one holding the Timaeus and the other with the Ethics..." Aristotle and Plato (School of Athens)
	"...and round them in a circle is a great school of philiosophers." I-292 Socrates, Xenophon, Eschines and Alcibiades (School of Athens)
	Philosophers (School of Athens)