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Excerpt from Raphael's Madonna Gonzaga: Technical Proofs of the Authenticity and History of the Painting Other students, more conservative, admired the painting but entertained doubt as to its origin. Before yielding in their skeptical atti tude these men required that technical proofs of the painting's authenticity be given with some information about its history and wander ings from place to place during the four*centuries that separate us from Raphael. In other words, they would be satisfied only with a consistent and Well connected account of the historical facts which occasioned the transfer of the paint ing from one country to another. In this mono graph ah attempt has been made to present these proofs and to retrace the history of the painting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.