None of them had Raphael's genius, yet all wished to paint like him; so that for the following fifty years Rome and Florence and Southern Italy were flooded with inferior Raphaelesque paintings, which tended to become more slip-shod in execution as time went on, and more devoid of any personal note.

It was just as though his imitators had learnt to write beautifully and then had had little to say.
Leonardo da Vinci died a few months before Raphael.

Several of his pupils were artists of ability, and lived to carry on his traditions of painting in the north of Italy.

Leonardo himself had been so erratic, produced so little, and so few of his pictures survive, that many know him best in his pupils' work, or through copies and engravings of his great 'Last Supper'-- a picture that became an almost total wreck upon the walls of the Refectory in Milan, for which it was painted.

His influence upon his contemporaries at Milan was very great, so that during some years hardly a picture was painted there which did not show a likeness to the work of Leonardo.