Such exposure is apparent in Rosso's Mannerist "Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro" (1523) in the Uffizimuseum in Florence, which resembles nothing so much as a brawl on an American river barge.
The Chimera eventually moved to the Uffizi, and then again to the National Archaeological Museum of Florence, where it can be seen today, a splendid example of the imaginary turned nearly real.
There are no sketches or documents relating to the Sistine Madonna's composition, but the museum fills this gap by exhibiting several other Raphaels, including the famous portrait (on loan from the Uffizi) of a melancholy Julius II slumped in his red throne and a portrait of the noblewomen Donna Velata, whose noble features may have inspired Raphael's depiction of Mary in the Sistine Madonna.