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         [Illustration: RAPHAEL SANZIO D' URBINO (BY HIMSELF)
         _Uffizi Gallery, Florence_]



                         Masterpieces of Art



                               RAPHAEL

                   A COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN PICTURES

                    AND A PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER

                        WITH INTRODUCTION AND

                            INTERPRETATION



                             _EDITED BY_

                           ESTELLE M. HURLL





                         BOSTON AND NEW YORK

                       HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

                    The Riverside Press Cambridge


              Copyright, 1899, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO

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PREFACE


The object of this collection of prints is to introduce the student to
Raphael through the pictures which appeal directly to the i