| Summary: | <p>This article looks afresh at three sheets attributed to Raphael, two of which are held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, while the third is at the Biblioteca Oliveriana, Pesaro, and only recently entered the artist’s oeuvre. The group has been regarded as preparatory for a small painting depicting the Resurrection of Christ housed at the Museu de Arte of São Paulo, which – if by Raphael – must date from circa 1499.</p> <br/> <p>Discussions of the three drawings in literature have primarily focused on their role in relation to the creation of that particular painting. What follows is a reassessment of their function and use by addressing them, in the first instance, as a manifestation of cognitive and expressive activities within the context of fifteenth-century workshop tradition, as well as by highlighting some new sources.</p>
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