The name of Roman School, again, has been given to Raphael and Michael Angelo together with their pupils.

The truth is that Rome, for one brief period, during the pontificates of Julius and Leo, was the focus of Italian intellect.
Allured by the patronage of the Papal Curia, not only artists, but scholars and men of letters, flocked from all the cities of Italy to Rome, where they found a nobler sphere for the exercise of their faculties than elsewhere.

But Rome, while she lent her imperial quality of grandeur to the genius of her aliens, was in no sense originative.

Rome produced no first-rate master from her own children, if we except Giulio Romano.

The title of originality is due rather to Padua, the birthplace of Mantegna, or to Parma, the city of Correggio, whose works display independence of either Florentine or Venetian traditions.