Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . onigsberg in 1740. In 1763,Count Algarotti, then ill and failing, was visited at Florence by David Garrick. whenmaking the Grand Tour. 16 122 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM immensely curious, particularly for the study of painting. AtBologna, Adam and Clerisseau appear to have been detained longer than they had in-tended, whilesome repairs werebeing made totheir coach ; buton Sunday, the22nd November,the defects having-been rectified,they left Bolognaon their way overthe A
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . onigsberg in 1740. In 1763,Count Algarotti, then ill and failing, was visited at Florence by David Garrick. whenmaking the Grand Tour. 16 122 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM immensely curious, particularly for the study of painting. AtBologna, Adam and Clerisseau appear to have been detained longer than they had in-tended, whilesome repairs werebeing made totheir coach ; buton Sunday, the22nd November,the defects having-been rectified,they left Bolognaon their way overthe Apennines toFlorence. Thatnight they lay atthe second postfrom Bologna, buton the following-day their destina-tion was usual, greatcold was experi-enced as theypassed over themountains, for theyear was far ad-vanced, and win-ter was at I cameto Florence, we read, I received several letters confirming thenews of the Kings death, and in consequence I was obliged to<go into mourning. The collection of the Pitti Palace, theJournal continues, is really regal: I examined it with pleasure. l- 92.—One of the Bronze Gates by LorenzoGhiberti, at the Baptistery, Florence. THE CONTINENTAL TOUR OF JAMES ADAM 123 and took the resolution to make Cunego engrave the followingpictures of it :—The Four Ages, by Pietro da Cortona, Four Angelsof a soffitto, by the same, representing each two Muses and Apollo,with the ninth Muse in the same soffit ; A Dance of the Muses,by Giulio Romano, to which perhaps, my Bath of Diana could bea companion. These I proposed as subject matter, if Strange didnot lay hold of them. The person described as Strange iscertain to have been Robert Strange, the engraver, whom JamesAdam subsequently met in Italy. Though at that time an involuntaryJacobite exile, Strange seems to have spent these weary yearsin studying Art, and by practising as an engraver. The beautifulbronze gates of Lorenzo Ghiberti, at the Baptistery of San Giovanni,which Michae
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