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Letter from Signorelli to Corrado Tarlatini (recto), paper, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Ms. MA 4261 (purchased as the gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, Jr., 1985). Copyright: Pierpont Morgan Library.

Raphael

1518

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*.1.1518 Bartolomeo della Valle and Raimondo Capodiferro divide the expense of a new sewer in Borgo Vecchio, indicating the amount incumbent on Raphael. View Document
*.1518 Inscription on the 'Saint Michael' in the Louvre, Paris. View Document
*.1518 Inscription on Francis I's 'Holy Family' in the Louvre. View Document
*.1518 Inscription on Ugo da Carpi's 'Aeneus and Anchises', by Raphael. View Document
*.1518 Inscription on Ugo Carpi's 'Death of Ananias', by Raphael. View Document
*.1518 Autograph notes by Raphael on a drawing of the Pantheon. View Document
16.1.1518 A payment of fifty ducats is made via the Ferrarese treasury. View Document
22.1.1518 Beltrame Costabili reports to Alfonso d'Este that Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino has sent his portrait, drawn by Raphael. View Document
27.1.1518 Beltrame Costabili informs Alfonso d'Este that Lorenzo de' Medici has left Rome for the wedding and has sent the portrait drawn by Raphael to France. View Document
3.2.1518 Baldassarre Turini informs Goro Gheri that Raphael's portrait of Duke Lorenzo is finished and only needs to dry before being despatched. View Document
4.2.1518 Lorenzo de' Medici asks Baldassarre Turini via Goro Gheri that the Raphael portrait and 'le cose che fa Michelino' be sent as soon as they are completed. View Document
5.2.1518 Lorenzo de' Medici replies to Baldassarre Turini via Goro Gheri, declaring himself satisfied that the Raphael portrait is complete and handsome. View Document
10.2.1518 Baldassarre Turini informs Goro Gheri that he will send the portrait of Duke Lorenzo to Leo with the first courier. View Document
12.2.1518 Baldassarre Turini informs Goro Gheri that the portrait of Duke Lorenzo has been admired by Pope Leo and is to be sent to Lyons the next day. View Document
14.2.1518 Goro Gheri, in Rome, writes to Baldassare Turini saying that he has seen the Duke's portrait and that it looks excellent. He mention a certain Marcantonio to the Duke, on Raphael's recommendation. View Document
19.2.1518 Goro Gheri, in Florence, writes to Baldassarre Turini: he will pass Raphael's message to Duke Lorenzo. View Document
20.2.1518 Goro Gheri, in Florence, writes to Baldassarre Turini, in Rome: Raphael must continue the work he has begun. View Document
1.3.1518 Beltrame Costabili, in Rome, writes to Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara: Raphael's work for the Duke is late again. View Document
*.3.1518 Payment to Raphael for the Loggias. View Document
15.3.1518 Beltrame Costabili in Rome writes to Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara: he will pass his message to Raphael, however the latter is hard to find. View Document
23.3.1518 Baldassarre Turini, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence: Raphael is working exclusively for Duke Lorenzo, and the 'Saint Michael' and 'Our Lady' are at a good point. View Document
25.3.1518 Goro Gheri, in Florence, writes to Baldassarre Turini, in Rome: he will pass news of Raphael's attention to the commisioned works to the Duke. View Document
27.3.1518 Baldassarre Turini, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence: Raphael is working exclusively on the Saint Michael and the Madonna, which will be finished at the end of next month and will be wonderful. View Document
28.3.1518 Beltrame Costabili, in Rome, writes to Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara: Raphael is constantly engaged on work for Francis I; when he has finished this work he will be at Alfonso's sole service. View Document
29.3.1518 Goro Gheri, in Florence, writes to Baldassarre Turini, in Rome: he will inform the Duke of the latest on Raphael, and the Duke will be pleased. View Document
11.4.1518 Goro Gheri, in Florence, writes to Baldassarre Turini: Duke Lorenzo issues the reminder to encourage Raphael to work on 'quelle opere che fa per S[ua] Ex[cellentia]'. View Document
11.4.1518 Baldassarre Turini, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence: he ought to tell the Duke that Raphael is working exclusively for him and that the work should be finished within the month. View Document
13.4.1518 Beltrame Costabili in Rome writes to Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara: he has spoken again with Raphael who says not to doubt that he will turn to the Duke's work as soon as he has completed his work for Francis I. View Document
13.4.1518 Baldassarre Turini, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence: the Saint Michael and the Madonna are both at a good point; at the end of the month both will be completed. View Document
15.4.1518 Goro Gheri, in Florence, writes to Baldassarre Turini, in Rome: Duke Lorenzo will be pleased to be updated on Raphael's progress. View Document
20.4.1518 Raphael borrows 150 ducats from Pierfrancesco Bini and pays him back. View Document
21.4.1518 Pope Leo X pays for eleven tapestries that are coming from Flanders. View Document
7.5.1518 Baldassarre Turini, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence: Raphael will soon despatch the paintings but he is waiting for instructions from the Duke. View Document
8.5.1518 Goro Gheri, in Florence, writes to Baldassarre Turini, in Rome: he believes it is a good idea to send Raphael's work by sea. View Document
9.5.1518 Goro Gheri, in Florence, writes to Baldassarre Turini, in Rome: he repeats that Raphael's work must be sent by sea. View Document
10.5.1518 Baldassarre Turini, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence: Raphael will receive painting instructions and Goro Gheri will be told what the task will entail to allow him to establish the up-front cost. View Document
12.5.1518 Baldassarre Turini, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence: the Pope has decided to transport Raphael's painting over land. View Document
14.5.1518 Goro Gheri, in Florence, writes to Baldassarre Turini, in Florence: Raphael's works must be sent by land, the painter will have to employ great care to protect them from damage during the voyage, in particular from water damage. View Document
15.5.1518 Raphael, in absentia, pays three hundred ducats for a vineyard. Antonio da San Marino pays on behalf of the painter. View Document
16.5.1518 Baldassarre Turini, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence: Bernardino de' Rossi will prepare the picture for Raphael for overland transit, Gheri is to organise the payments. View Document
25.5.1518 Baldassarre Turini, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence: work on Raphael's paintings are finished, the paintings are to be prepared for travel the next day. View Document
27.5.1518 Beltrame Costabili, in Rome, writes to Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara: Raphael has finished the Saint Michael for the 'Christianissimo Re' and the Madonna 'per la Maestà del la Regina', consequently he has been reminded that it is now time for him to begin work on Alfonso's commisions. View Document
27.5.1518 Goro Gheri, in Florence, writes to Baldassarre Turini, in Rome: Cardinal Giulio's orders regarding the despatch of Raphael's paintings to France are to be followed. View Document
1.6.1518 Baldassarre Turini, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence: the Pope is no longer against (the proposal) and Raphael's paintings have been prepared for the voyage and will be sent the next day. A member of the workshop will be on hand for their preparation. View Document
3.6.1518 Goro Gheri writes to Baldassarre Turini in Rome: he agrees to the decisions taken regarding the transport of Raphael's paintings. View Document
3.6.1518 Raffaello interviene in occasione di una controversia tra l'Arcidiacono di Urbino e Girolamo Vagnini, Urbino. View Document
4.6.1518 Goro Gheri, in Florence, writes to Baldassarre Turini, in Rome: he has had notice of the Pope's good health and of the paintings sent to the Duke. View Document
5.6.1518 Baldassarre Turini, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence informing him of problems regarding the transport of Raphael's paintings. View Document
6.6.1518 Goro Gheri, in Florence, writes to Baldassarre Turini, in Rome: if Agostino Vitela requires his help with the pictures on their way to the Duke, he [Goro] will provide assistance. View Document
7.6.1518 Raphael is at the Vatican to delegate to his cousin Girolamo Vagnini the role of Scriptor Brevium. View Document
11.6.1518 Goro Gheri, in Florence, writes to Duke Lorenzo, at Amboise: Raphael's paintings are currently in Florence and the muleteers will depart the next day along with a boy from Raphael's workshop. View Document
19.6.1518 Goro Gheri, in Florence, writes to Duke: Raphael's paintings have been despatched to Leo. View Document
2.7.1518 Sebastiano del Piombo writes to Michelangelo saying that he has worked slowly: Raphael will not see the work before finishing his own. View Document
15.7.1518 Raphael wishes to acquire a statue from Gabriele de' Rossi's inheritance. View Document
21.7.1518 The deceased Gabriel de' Rossi has left his antiquities to his heirs or alternately to the Conservatori of Rome. Raphael declares that he has papal authority to seize them, whereas Paluzio de' Mattei, a Conservatore, states his own rights. View Document
28.7.1518 Domenico da Terranova writes to Michelangelo, in Florence: Raphael is trying to have Sebastiano's work for Cardinal de' Medici framed in France, contrary to Bastiano's wishes. View Document
13.8.1518 Beltrame Costabili, in Rome, writes to Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara: he continues to encourage Raphael, engaged on works for the Pope. Not able to speak to him in person, he has written to the painter, who reports that he has begun work for the Duke. View Document
13.8.1518 Beltrame Costabili, in Rome, writes to Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara: he continues to encourage Raphael and, not able to speak to him personally, he has written to him. The painter has responded saying that he has begun work for the Duke. View Document
21.8.1518 Benedetto Buondelmonti, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence, summarising a letter from Cardinal Bibbiena: the paintings have arrived in Nantes on the same day as the King and Queen. View Document
1.9.1518 Benedetto Buondelmonti, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri and to Duke Lorenzo, in Florence: the Raphael portrait of Leo X will be sent tomorrow. View Document
2.9.1518 Benedetto Buondelmonti, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence, introducing the pupils from Raphael's workshop who will accompany the portrait of Leo X. View Document
8.9.1518 Alfonsina Orsini-Medici in Florence, writes to Giovanni da Poppi, describing the party at Palazzo Medici for Duke Lorenzo and referring to the portrait of Leo X, hung over the Duchess's table. View Document
10.9.1518 Payments to Antonio da Sangallo for a wooden ceiling in the Vatican. View Document
10.9.1518 Payment to Fra Ambrogio della Robbia for a pavement. View Document
15.9.1518 Antonio Strozzi, in Rome, writes to Lorenzo Strozzi saying that the city of Florence would like to build a church: the drawings have already been done by Raphael, Jacopo Sansovino and others. View Document
21.9.1518 Beltrame Costabili, in Rome, writes to Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara, reporting a long conversation with Raphael, who promises to finish the portrait of the Duke in time for Christmas, and would like to give the cartoon with the image of St Michael. View Document
22.9.1518 Beltrame Costabili, in Rome, writes to Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara, introducing one of Raphael's 'garzoni', travelling to Venice, perhaps to buy pigments; the Duke may take this opportunity to enquire as to progress on Raphael's work. View Document
28.9.1518 Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara, writes to Beltrame Costabili, in Rome: he will accept Raphael's cartoon of the Saint Michael, but the painter will have to deliver the painting for the Duke as soon as possible. View Document
20.10.1518 Beltrame Costabili, in Rome, writes to Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara: the Pope is away, perhaps because of the works underway on his apartments in the Vatican. View Document
23.10.1518 Beltrame Costabili, in Rome, writes to Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara: the Saint Michael has been despatched. Raphael does not wish to be hurried on the painting for the Duke, a work close to his heart. View Document
28.10.1518 Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara, writes to Beltrame Costabili, in Rome, saying that he is pleased that the Saint Michael has been despatched and returns the money spent on the delivery of the cartoon. View Document
10.11.1518 Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara, writes to Beltrame Costabili, in Rome: the Raphael cartoon of Saint Michael has arrived to the Duke. View Document
11.11.1518 Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara, writes to Beltrame Costabili, in Rome: he asks him to thank Raphael for the cartoon, to give him 25 scudi and to encourage him to finish the painting. View Document
20.11.1518 Beltrame Costabili, in Rome, writes to Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara, saying that he has given Raphael the 25 scudi. Costabili will soon visit the painter to assess his progress on the painting for the Duke. View Document
29.12.1518 Alfonso d'Este, in Paris writes to Obizzone Remo, in Ferrara, asking him to get in touch with Costabili, who is to encourage Raphael to deliver the painting for the Duke and to request the cartoon with the Vice queen of Naples. View Document