Raphael - Self portrait as a young man

Imagine being 17 years old and being able to draw like this

Raphael is rightly regarded as one of the greatest draughtsmen in all of western art - his reputation matched only by the two other icons of the Italian high renaissance; Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarotti.

But it’s worth remembering that in his prime as a painter, Raphael was tentat…