Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, former pupil of Jacques Louis David and the spiritual heir to Neoclassicism after David’s death, once exclaimed after seeing work by the great Renaissance master Raphael:
“He tamed the model to such a point and possessed it so thoroughly in his memory, that instead of the model giving him orders, one would say that the model obeyed him.”
What are your thoughts on this Rapahel portrait within the statement expressed above?
Raphael, Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione, 1515
roberttracyphd
Survey of the History of Art II 