A few feet away, a pen-and-ink study of the Virgin and Child by Raphael – who arrived in Florence ... this lesson to good use in The Bridgewater Madonna, an oil painting of the Virgin and ...

Raphael, a friend of Taddeo Taddei, was inspired by the Taddei Tondo. Several years later, the piece would influence the artist’s Bridgewater Madonna (1507-8), a painting featured nearby in the ...

And Raphael, 21, whose precocious talent was ... dominates the central gallery. To create this Madonna and Child, Leonardo painstakingly assembled several sheets, larger than those available ...

One such moment occurs early on, when we encounter both Michelangelo's "Tondo" and a delicate pen-and-ink study of the Virgin and Child by Raphael. The former, depicting "a curly-haired ...