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  • He called Raffaelle to him and despatched him on an errand to Naples.

    The Lost Stradivarius John Meade Falkner 1895

  • When the Dukes of Urbino, dazzled with the brilliancy of the Moorish potters, had determined to rival their workmanship in manufactories upon their own principality, the so-called Raffaelle-ware soon afterwards fascinated the Italians, by the quaint design and beautiful colour of the dishes and vases there produced.

    Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture 1840

  •  In one entry, she writes: "I think it's possible that Raffaelle went to Meredith's house, raped her, then killed her and then when he got home, while I was sleeping, he pressed my fingerprints n the knife."

    The Many Faces of Amanda 2008

  • Raffaelle, Titian, Correggio, Allori, which seem abstractions, so distant are they from our daily lives.

    A Daughter of Eve 2007

  • Raffaelle, Titian, Correggio, Allori, which seem abstractions, so distant are they from our daily lives.

    A Daughter of Eve 2007

  • Ask him to sell a copy of Raffaelle for an original; a trumpery modern Brussels counterfeit for real old Mechlin; some common French forged crockery for the old delightful, delicate, Dresden china; and he will quit you with scorn, or order his servant to show you the door of his study.

    The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

  • None but a post master could feel impatient within sight of such meadows, filled with cattle worthy of Paul Potter and glowing beneath a Raffaelle sky, and beside a canal shaded with trees after

    Ursula 2006

  • He had such a complexion as that with which Raffaelle enriches the countenance of the youthful son of Zacharias, — a complexion which, though clear, is far enough removed from virgin delicacy, and suggests plenty of sun and wind as its accompaniment.

    Two on a Tower 2006

  • She is my equal; poor as myself; she is certainly pretty: a little Raffaelle head hers; Raffaelle in feature, quite English in expression: all insular grace and purity; but where is there anything to alter, anything to endure, anything to reprimand, to be anxious about?

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • Madelon might have recognized the same spirit as that which animated the American; and as the artist had once uncovered at the name of Raffaelle and Lionardo da Vinci, so did the musician figuratively bow down at the shrines of Handel, or

    My Little Lady Eleanor Frances Poynter

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