ABSTRACT
APART from the lively narrative of Vasari we are completely in the dark as to Raphael’s apprenticeship, the period between the twelfth l and the seventeenth year which particularly in those days was decisive for a young artist. Then there emerges suddenly no longer the pupil, but the skilled, fully-trained assistant of Perugino. About 1500 he is painting important parts in the works of the master and in the productions of the workshops, and himself takes on orders for altarpieces; it speaks for the early spread of his fame that major works were entrusted to the seventeen-year-old artist.
