[Raffaelle de’ Capponi; Raffaelle de’ Carli; Raffaelle de Florentia]
(b Florence, ?1466; d Florence, 1524). Italian painter and draughtsman. According to Vasari, he began as the most gifted assistant of Filippino Lippi and the most promising painter of the new generation but never fulfilled expectations, deteriorating into mediocrity and worse.
Paula Nuttall