That beautiful Umbrian landscape, in which all the towns look like castles perched upon the top of steep hills, with wide undulating ground between, occurs frequently in the pictures of Perugino, and often in those of his pupil Raphael.

If you have once seen the view from Perugia for yourself, you will realize how strongly it took hold of the imagination of the young painter.

Raphael had a most impressionable mind.

It was part of his genius that, from every painter with whom he came in contact he imbibed the best, almost without knowing it.

The artists of his day, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the other great men, were each severally employed in working out once and for all some particular problem in connection with their art.