Franz Liszt composed Sposalizio, which translates into "Marriage", from Italian, after being inspired from Raphael's painting The Marriage of the Virgin.
Raphael's Sposalizio (the Marriage of the Virgin) was the key painting of the early collection, and the Academy increased its cultural scope by taking on associates across the First French Empire: David, Pietro Benvenuti, Vincenzo Camuccini, Canova, Thorvaldsen and the archaeologist Ennio Quirino Visconti.