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Raphael
The Grand Duke's Madonna, oil painting by Raphael, 1505; in the Pitti Palace, Florence.
Raphael had certainly arrived in Florence by the autumn of 1504. While it is uncertain if this was his first visit to the city, it was around this time that he began to have substantial contact with the local artistic civilization, which significantly influenced his development as a painter.1