Raphael &

Pages: 256 p.Illustrations:10 b/w, 144 col., 1 tables b/w., 1 tables col. Language(s):English. Publication Year:2026. ISBN: 978-1-915487-86-5. Brepols. Hardback - Summary Raphael worked well with others, more so than many Renaissance artists. In this long-awaited book, Lisa Pon reassesses Raphael's collaborations in painting and many other media, thereby re-evaluating period and current attitudes towards originality, authorship, artistic practice and value. In the process, readers will see not the familiar painter in "pursuit of perfection," but an unruly Raphael who exceeds our expectations, a Renaissance artist who experiments with artistic techniques, considers polyphonic music and humanist debates, and plans a virtual Rome to explore through new means of visualization. This book is about the ampersand: &. Just as an anti-novel may look like a novel in form, this book may resemble a conventional artist's monograph in its attention to Raphael and some of his major paintings. But I subvert the classic monograph's basic premise by emphasizing not an isolated, singular artist but rather the many social and working relationships with which Raphael was emmeshed and the many media into which he delved. This book is fundamentally about how we write about art and artists, what we want to know and can know historically, and what sustains our visual interest and intellectual curiosity, especially after five hundred years. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Annotated Index of Names Introduction About the & PART I GROUPS Chapter 1 Families Giovanni Santi’s Wills, Raphael’s Letters Nephews and Adoptive Family in Rome and Urbino Painter-Fathers for an Orphan Raphael’s Art World Family Chapter 2 Flock Comitas and the Lamb Painting Experiments Painting from Open Window to Woven Tapestry Raphael’s Special "Mix" Chapter 3 Likenesses Families and Single Bodies Doria Double Extreme Portraiture in the Stanza della Segnatura INTERMEDIO THE "LOGGIA IN THE MIDDLE" Chapter 4 Conversations Dialogue and Conversation Disputa in the Texts of Giovanni Santi and Giorgio Vasari Disputation in Suspension Concord and Polyphony Chapter 5 Weft Between Places and Names "Big Art" in Renaissance Rome Painted Paper for Woven Threads, Counterproofs from Engraved Plates Transmedial Design and Production at a Distance Prints, Tapestries, and Painting Chapter 6 Palimpsests Saint Peter’s, Old and New Raphael’s Virtual Rome Visual Footnotes and Open Endings Perino’s Post Script P.P.S. [Post Postscript, or Pon’s Postscript] Selected Bibliography.…