Little Museum Of Leonardo: Velazquez had many pupils and imitators, and some of them approached his style of painting very closely. Among the best known of the former were Jose Leonardo, Carreno de Miranda, Juan Bautista del Mazo (his son-in-law), and Pareja (his slave, whom he liberated). Himself the greatest Spanish painter, and one of the world's greatest artistic geniuses, he inspired his pupils to good work. The fact that some of them, like Leonardo and Mazo. approached his own almost perfect style, is a high tribute to his talent as a teacher.
The series as a whole shows increasing unity as well as increasing variety ; both results came from adopting the creative method invented by Leonardo: not constructing the picture unit by unit, but conceiving the whole picture as one. The later drawings for Madonnas in this phase resemble doodles, like Leonardo's, out of which new compositional ideas spring spontaneously. These Madonnas were largely painted for leading Florentine patrons, but with the exception of one large altarpiece left unfinished in 1508 (Madonna del Baldacchino; Pitti), this was the limit of Raphael's success as an outsider in Florence.
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