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| Title: | Raphael. Spurious Letters |
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| Dates: | undated |
| Size: | 0.25 linear feet (1 box) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | The collection contains three letters once attributed to the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael, but later determined to be forgeries. Also included are transcripts and notes related to the letters. |
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The collection contains three letters once attributed to the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520.) Part of the 1891 Berlin Purchase that formed the foundation for the University of Chicago Library, the letters were originally believed to have been written by Raphael in 1515-1516. Though found to be spurious not long after their acquistion, the letters were retained as instructive examples of skilled forgeries.
Addressed to Lodovico di Canossa, Bishop of Bayeux, and Count Galeasso di Canossa, the letters discuss the completion and delivery of a painting believed to be the Madonna (la Perla), now attributed Giulio Romano rather than Raphael.
Transcriptions and descriptions of the letters may also be found in Goodspeed, Edgar J., A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Chicago, pp. 123-126.
The collection was previously part of the Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection.
| Box 1 Folder 1 | Spurious Letters, undated
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