Raphael glows in the National Gallery’s delayed blockbuster exhibition

More than his contemporaries, if you wanted a grand painting or church decorated in 16th-century Italy, there was only one person to call on, named after a saint, if without the saintly behaviour, it was Raphael.
An artist so lauded in life, that when he died, it is alleged from an excess of sex, he was compared to Jesus, and not just because both of them died young and on Good Friday, although that probably helped.
Charming, prolific, apt to meeting his deadlines, and possessed of self-assuranc