He seems even to have been afraid that he might not be able to draw it again so perfectly; therefore he placed the drawing over the panel and pricked it through.

The marks of the pin are quite clear, and it brings one nearer this great artist to follow closely the process of his work.

It makes the young boy genius of 1500 almost seem akin to the struggling boy and girl artists of the present time.
From Perugia Raphael went to Florence, where he painted a number of his most beautiful Madonnas.

Then, in 1508, he was called to Rome by Pope Julius II.

to decorate some rooms in the Vatican Palace.