Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . Cartoon^ and Michel- angelos David he spent much time incopying the old frescos of Masaccio in the Carmine church. During the first part of this Florentine period Raphaelbegan the continuous production of those masterpieces ofincomparable beauty or grandeur the great number of which,considering his short life, is so astonishing. Among thesemasterpieces the portraits have
Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . Cartoon^ and Michel- angelos David he spent much time incopying the old frescos of Masaccio in the Carmine church. During the first part of this Florentine period Raphaelbegan the continuous production of those masterpieces ofincomparable beauty or grandeur the great number of which,considering his short life, is so astonishing. Among thesemasterpieces the portraits have an important place. He hadalready painted a most wonderfully vivid portrait of hismaster Perugino (Borghese Gallery, Rome), and he nowproduced the justly celebrated portraits of the FlorentineAngelo Doni and his wife (Pitti), and, perhaps rather later,the still more famous one of himself (Uffizi). Of his otherwell-known paintings of this period I can only mention theMadonna del Gran Duca (Pitti), the Casa Tempi Madonna(Munich), and the Ansidei Madonna, that glory of our National ^ In the Louvre is a beautiful pen-and-ink copy by Raphael of the MonaLisa. The illustration here given is from the portrait bx, ART (1500-1600) Gallery which was bought, from Blenheim, for .£72,000. Thispicture represents the Virgin enthroned under a lofty canopyin the Umbrian fashion, and it was probably painted atPerugia, which Raphael revisited in 1505-1506. From Perugiahe went to his home in Urbino, where, besides other works,he painted a fine picture of St. George and the Dragon, whichhis friend Castiglione was commissioned by Duke Guidobaldoto take as a present to our Henry VII, seeing that Guidobaldohad lately received the Order of the Garter. 1 On his returnto Florence, as both I,eonardo and Michelangelo had left, hewas drawn into closer intimacy with Fra Bartolomeo, whoseinfluence is very perceptible in the Madonna del Baldacchino(Pitti) and the St. Catharine of our National Gal
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