V. Fraticelli – “Le martyre de plusieurs saints”. Some unedited Cavalcaselle and Crowe’letters and the collecting events of an early Raphael’s work

After the publication of the first volumes on the history of painting in Italy, which came out in London between 1864 and 1866, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle and Joseph Archer Crowe planned to produce a series of biographies of great sixteenth-century artists. Raphael, his life and works was published between 1882 and 1885. The work on the sources and the direct observation of Raphael's works lead the reader to interesting reflections and discoveries, because Raphael’s life itself and the history of the collections of his works have never stopped amazing art historians over time. This is indeed the case of a small work called Le martyre de plusieurs saints by Crowe and Cavalcaselle, whose collection history will be reconstructed here.

Raphael, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Joseph Archer Crowe