In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . est:it cannot from its charm. Near it in this room isSustermanns fascinating boy Prince of Denmark; andon opposite walls are two large pictures of TheAssumption by Andrea del Sarto. These latterhave an interest apart from their beauty in the oppor-tunity they give to note the artists resources inconnection with a single subject. The Hall of Saturn is the Hall of Raphael. Thereare eight of his pictures here, four of such char-acter and so hung as to make a curiously balancedquartette. These are the two men in red, Inghiramiand Bi
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . est:it cannot from its charm. Near it in this room isSustermanns fascinating boy Prince of Denmark; andon opposite walls are two large pictures of TheAssumption by Andrea del Sarto. These latterhave an interest apart from their beauty in the oppor-tunity they give to note the artists resources inconnection with a single subject. The Hall of Saturn is the Hall of Raphael. Thereare eight of his pictures here, four of such char-acter and so hung as to make a curiously balancedquartette. These are the two men in red, Inghiramiand Bibbiena, and the two Madonnas of worldfame, the Gran Duca and della Sedia. Here isRaphael at his smoothest and sweetest. He ishere the courtier and the artist genius turn by turn,and both at once. It is interesting to look fromRaphael to Perugino his master, as shown in a singlefamous picture in this room, the Deposition fromSt. Chiara. Sweet and smooth are truly the wordsfor both master and master-surpassing pupil. In the adjoining room, the Hall of Jupiter, is. Photo. Brogi The Granduca Madonna Raphael: Pitti The Pitti and Accademia 129 Raphaels La Velata, with its face of the SistineMadonna secularized. Opposite it is Titians violet-sleeved Fornarina; beauty against beauty. Herealso is a picture by an unknown artist—or rather, anundetermined artist, but one forever famous by thispicture alone—the so-called Three Ages of face of the old man is a face of affairs; thatof the middle-aged man a Christ-face; and that ofthe boy a painter or poet in his beginning. Anotherpicture here of three faces, or really a triple repeti-tion of a single face, is The Fates, painted by RossoFiorentino after an alleged design of the Hall of Prometheus just off this room isFilippo Lippis delightful tondo of the Madonnaand Child, with the Nativity of Mary in the back-ground. In the Sala di Marte are two unforgettable por-traits by Rembrandt. One is the world-familiar oneo
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