Raphael's Bindo Altoviti
c. 1515 (120 Kb); Oil on wood, 60 x 44 cm (23 1/2 x 17 1/4 in); National
Gallery of Art, Washington
Raphael's life was short, but while he lived he was one of those geniuses
who continually evolve and develop. He had an extraordinary capacity (like,
though greater than, Picasso's) to respond to every movement in the art
world, and to subsume it within his own work.