Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino in Art Collections and in the History of Collecting

Raphael’s artworks, paintings, altarpieces, drawings, tapestries, cartoons, prints, ceramics and all other artifacts derived from his works, including copies and forgeries, have been the object of an often-frantic search from his death in 1520 onwards.

France, Spain, Germany, England, and Italy were the main destinations for such artworks between the 16th and the 18th centuries, while the market spread overseas from the 19th century onwards.

This book is the first full exploration of this phenomenon and of the mechanisms of transmission of Raphael’s artifax through inheritance, sales, swaps and shady transactions. It includes essays in English, French and Italian by some of the most knowledgeable scholars on Raphael, museum curators and experts in the history of collecting, and is a landmark in scholarship on Raphael and art collecting.

Claudia La Malfa received her PhD from the Warburg Institute, London, in 2003. She teaches History of Art at the American University of Rome, and is the author of Raphael and the Antique (2020), Raffaello. La scoperta dei Galati nella Stanza di Eliodoro (2019), and Pintoricchio a Roma. La seduzione dell’antico (2009). She has also published articles in peer-review journals on Raphael, Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, Pintoricchio, and the discovery of antiquity in the Renaissance.

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Luca Baroni

Cécile Beuzelin

Carly Collier

Marzia Faietti

Claudia La Malfa

Barbara Pezzini

Stefano Pierguidi

Pier Ludovico Puddu

Furio Rinaldi

Robert Skirblies

Stefania Ventra