. Baldassare Castiglione the perfect courtier, his life and letters, 1478-1529;. ves, with a green curtain and landscape in the style is somewhat hard, but the picture is a good exampleof the painter, of whom it was said that the soul of Raphaelhad entered into the body of Parmigiano.* The two portrait medals of Castiglione here reproduced arementioned by the Counts early biographers, and given inLittas Italian families. One, in the Trivulzio collection, wasdesigned by Raphael, according to Beffa-Negrini, and worn by theCount in his cap, after the fashion of the day. It bears a
. Baldassare Castiglione the perfect courtier, his life and letters, 1478-1529;. ves, with a green curtain and landscape in the style is somewhat hard, but the picture is a good exampleof the painter, of whom it was said that the soul of Raphaelhad entered into the body of Parmigiano.* The two portrait medals of Castiglione here reproduced arementioned by the Counts early biographers, and given inLittas Italian families. One, in the Trivulzio collection, wasdesigned by Raphael, according to Beffa-Negrini, and worn by theCount in his cap, after the fashion of the day. It bears a profilehead, closely resembling the later portraits ascribed to Raphael,and on the reverse a radiant Apollo, the lord of light and darkness,springing into his chariot to scatter the clouds of night, in-scribed with the motto Tenehranmi et lucis. The other medal,which was the property of the Gaudenzio-Bordiga family atMilan, is apparently of earlier date, and bears on the reversethe image of a stormy sea, an evident allusion to the troublesand vicissitudes of the heros
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