Handbook for travellers in Northern Italy : comprising Turin, Milan, Pavia, Cremona the Italian lakes, Bergamo, Brescia, Verona, Mantua, Vicenza, Padua, Venice, Ferrara, Bologna, Ravenna, Rimini, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Genoa, the Riviera, and the intermediate towns and routes . And a Madonnaand Child with San Bruno, by In the Oval Hall (III.) that followsare some works of modern artists ofno great interest. Here have beenplaced two colossal statues in greenor Ethiopian basalt—one of Hercules,the other of Bacchus and Pan; theyare perhaps the largest specimensknown of this very har
Handbook for travellers in Northern Italy : comprising Turin, Milan, Pavia, Cremona the Italian lakes, Bergamo, Brescia, Verona, Mantua, Vicenza, Padua, Venice, Ferrara, Bologna, Ravenna, Rimini, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Genoa, the Riviera, and the intermediate towns and routes . And a Madonnaand Child with San Bruno, by In the Oval Hall (III.) that followsare some works of modern artists ofno great interest. Here have beenplaced two colossal statues in greenor Ethiopian basalt—one of Hercules,the other of Bacchus and Pan; theyare perhaps the largest specimensknown of this very hard and rarematerial, and in a good style of were discovered in the 17thcent., in the gardens of the Palatineat Koine, then the property of theruling family of Parma, the is some resemblance to Hadrianin the face of the Hercules, as thereis in that of Bacchus to Antinous.— PLAN OF THE PINACOTECA AT PARMA O O t, VI — V -«— IV O O I. to VI. Great Gallery, of which III. Oval Small Genre Council-room. IX. Madonna della Scodella and St. Toschis Old Masters. a. Entrance to Galleria. b. Statue of Maria Louisa, c. d. Statues in Basalt of Hercules and Mi/ Boom IV. contains some of the chefs-doeuvre of this part of the *San Vitale Madonna, and the* Deposition, by F. Francia : the first,a lovely picture, represents the Virginand Child seated on a throne, withSS. Benedict, Placidus, Justina, andSeolastica on either side, with theinfant St. John in the foreground; itis dated 1515, and long belonged tothe San Vitale family. The Depositionrepresents the Dead Saviour on theknees of the Virgin, surrounded bysaints; it is signed, but not other remarkable works here areLudovico Caraccis large subjects ofthe Virgin carried to the Tomb, and the Tomb found empty by the Dead Christ, by An. Caracci. Aseries of six copies of Correggiosma
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