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Sorry, misled, this opinion was about Leonardo Raphael.

Let's try to quote from the book, perhaps it will be interesting.

"" Happy Boy "... attained fame, wealth, honors like playing ... Cardinal Bibby had spoken for her niece, but he bided his time, as he himself promised a cardinal's purple ... His face, although all of the same child, innocent and senseless for several less than before, like a cherub face - barely noticeable filled out, dull and flabby ... never happened to him from leaving the house without having an honorable retinue of fifty men, so that each of those visits resembled a triumphal procession. "

"This newcomer from Urbino, - read a novel by Dmitry Merezhkovsky" Resurrected Gods "- a dreamy boy with the face of the Immaculate Madonna, who appeared an angel flying down to earth, as perfectly suited their worldly affairs: painted stables Roman banker Agostino Chigi, prepared drawings for its utensils, dishes and plates of gold, which he treats after the Pope, threw into the Tiber, so that they are not used to anyone ..... littered with work, denied everything. But petitioners do not desist, osozhdali it. long since he had no time to finish their works, was just beginning, did two or three smears, and immediately conveyed to his disciples, who caught up and finished the like on the fly. Raphael's Center has made great factory, where shrewd businessman turned the canvas and paint in hard cash, with unbelievable speed, with a market insolence . Rumor has announced him as the greatest artist of all ages and nations: Rafael became the god of painting.
And detrimental to the future of art than discord and chaos of Michelangelo, was this easy harmony Sanzio, academically dead deceitful intent. "

"Leonardo had a presentiment that for the two peaks of Michelangelo and Raphael, there is no way for the future, then break, emptiness. And at the same time conscious of how much both owe him: they took from him the science of light and shade, anatomy, perspective, knowledge of nature, man - and coming out of it destroyed him. "