The art of the Vatican; a brief history of the palace, and an account of the principal works of art within its walls . ks the mysterious innerstrength, the hidden, yet ever penetrating spirit thatsees and knows and feels and has power to subdue,— the spirit that is a very part of both the Mary andthe Babe of the Sistine. The second of the three treasures of this chamberwas painted more than ten years before the Trans-figuration. Sigismondo Conti, chamberlain forJulius II., ordered the Madonna di Foligno aboutthe time when Raphael was working in the Cameradeir Eliodoro. Conti wished to commemor
The art of the Vatican; a brief history of the palace, and an account of the principal works of art within its walls . ks the mysterious innerstrength, the hidden, yet ever penetrating spirit thatsees and knows and feels and has power to subdue,— the spirit that is a very part of both the Mary andthe Babe of the Sistine. The second of the three treasures of this chamberwas painted more than ten years before the Trans-figuration. Sigismondo Conti, chamberlain forJulius II., ordered the Madonna di Foligno aboutthe time when Raphael was working in the Cameradeir Eliodoro. Conti wished to commemorate hisescape from a meteor during the siege of Foligno,an escape he credited to the intervention of Heavenitself. The picture shows him in his red mantleand cape with fur linings, kneeling in the foregroundof a landscape while the bolt is whirling across thesky. The mantle allowls the full play of his arms,which are sleeved in brown. His face, thin, worn, islifted in profile to the heavens, while Jerome, accom-panied by his lion, rests his hand on the chamber-lains head. Jerbmes gesture, as he calls the atten-. MADONNA DI FOLIGNOBy Raphael; in the Pinacoteca Ubc IPinacoteca 311 tion of Heaven to his charge, is full of dignity anda concentration that finds its strongest expression inhis deep-set, piercing eyes. The vision above, towhich they are both appealing, is that of Mary seatedon the clouds in the centre of a circle of golden about her swarm cherubs and angels, who seempartly to uphold her throne of clouds. Upon herright knee stands Jesus, whom his mother steadiesby one hand on his shoulder, while with the other shegrasps the muslin about his wiaist. He bends onearm across his breast, and with the other clutcheswith all ten fingers his mothers robe, his head atthe same time turning toward the suppliants onthe earth below. Perhaps the most exquisite bitof painting in the whole picture is that of the wingedboy who stands holding a tablet near the kneelingConti.
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