. Italian wall decorations of the 15th and 16th centuries : A handbook to the models, illustrating interiors of Italian buildings, in the Victoria and Albert museum, South Kensington. THE HALL OF EXCHANGE, PERUGIA. 77 and also by the fact that the Latin verses above mentioned(epigrams), as well as the one which may be read beneath thefigure of Cato, are all to be found in a manuscript, on paper,. The Nativity, attributed to Maturanzio, containing a miscellaneous collectionof sixteenth-century Latin poetry, preserved in the CityLibrary (F. 5, pp. 100, 101). 78 THE SALA DEL CAMBIO, OR The genera
. Italian wall decorations of the 15th and 16th centuries : A handbook to the models, illustrating interiors of Italian buildings, in the Victoria and Albert museum, South Kensington. THE HALL OF EXCHANGE, PERUGIA. 77 and also by the fact that the Latin verses above mentioned(epigrams), as well as the one which may be read beneath thefigure of Cato, are all to be found in a manuscript, on paper,. The Nativity, attributed to Maturanzio, containing a miscellaneous collectionof sixteenth-century Latin poetry, preserved in the CityLibrary (F. 5, pp. 100, 101). 78 THE SALA DEL CAMBIO, OR The general idea which this grand composition is intendedto convey, is the triumph of divine justice from the cradle ofthe humble Child in the stable at Bethlehem to the supremeglory of the Transfiguration of the Nazarene, attended bythose two Prophets who specially predicted the gloriousevent, and by their prophecies weld together the Old and NewTestaments ; adding separately in other pictures representa-tions of all those virtues which form the base of humanjustice and the adornment of a perfect citizen. It is clearlyevident that such a conception was inspired by a mindabsorbed in philosophical and historical studies, and couldnot be the product of an average intellect such as that ofPietro, who, though an excellent painter, possessed neitherthe culture nor a mind sufficiently trained to conceive
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