One victim of the Covid-19 pandemic had died 500 years earlier. Raphael (1483-1520) was due to get the quincentennial treatment from some august museums. Then the doors shut. When at last his moment came, the shows were drowned out in the hubbub of a reopening world. And so a big chance was lost to arrest two centuries of reputational drift for the artist. Raphael will continue to be seen as the bronze medallist of the High Renaissance, some distance beneath Michelangelo and Leonardo, whatever his technical perfection, whatever his former standing as their equal or better.
新冠疫情的一位受害者早在500年前就去世了。拉斐尔(1483-1520)本应得到一些权威博物馆的500周年纪念礼遇。然而博物馆却关了门。等到属于他的时刻终于来了，展出却被重新开放的世界的喧嚣给淹没了。也因此，为这位艺术家止住两个世纪来声誉漂移的大好机会也就此失去。拉斐尔将继续被视为文艺复兴鼎盛时期的铜牌选手，距离米开朗基罗和列奥纳多还落后一段距离，无论他的技艺多么完美，无论他以前的地位曾与前面那两位旗鼓相当甚或更好。