In 1495 he returned to Urbino and replaced Giovanni Santi, the recently deceased father of Raphael, as painter to the small but brilliant court there.

[3] In any case they remained friends, and Viti obtained or inherited the most important group of Raphael's studio drawings, which his descendants sold to Pierre Crozat in the 17th century.

Guidobaldo regained Urbino in 1504 and Viti, along with Girolamo Genga, was commissioned by Bishop Arrivabene to decorate the chapel of S Martino in the cathedral.

He continued to work successfully in the Marches for the rest of the decade,[5] and as far south as Siena, where he and Genga collaborated on paintings in the Palazzo Petrucci in about 1508.

[7] Raphael's mature style influenced him for a period afterwards, as can be seen in the large altarpiece depicting Noli me Tangere, and in the foreground the Archangel Michael defeating Satan and St Anthony Abbot (c. 1512) for the church of Sant'Angelo Minore in Cagli (Pesaro).