Spain and Portugal: handbook for travellers . It contains in-deed only two importantpictures of the Early Ital- )2j ians of the 15th cent.: analtar-piece by Fra Angelicoand the Death of the Virginby Mantegna. The bestperiod is, however, repre-sented by numerous master-pieces. Ten pictures areascribed to Raphael. Amongthose which were certainlyexecuted wholly or mainlyby the artists own brushare the Spasimo di Sicilia, -carried off from Palermo in hj1661; the Madonna with thefish, one of the most beau-tiful of Raphaels Madonnas(of his Roman period); asecond and smaller HolyFamily which shows si
Spain and Portugal: handbook for travellers . It contains in-deed only two importantpictures of the Early Ital- )2j ians of the 15th cent.: analtar-piece by Fra Angelicoand the Death of the Virginby Mantegna. The bestperiod is, however, repre-sented by numerous master-pieces. Ten pictures areascribed to Raphael. Amongthose which were certainlyexecuted wholly or mainlyby the artists own brushare the Spasimo di Sicilia, -carried off from Palermo in hj1661; the Madonna with thefish, one of the most beau-tiful of Raphaels Madonnas(of his Roman period); asecond and smaller HolyFamily which shows similarbeauty on a miniature scale;and the brilliantly colouredportrait of the Cardinal ofPavia. — Among the finestof the other paintings of thesame period are a master-piece ofAndrea delSarto, theoft-repeated Bearing of theCross by Sebastiano del Pi-ombo, and two genuine earlyworks of Correggio. — Themost attractive part of theItalian section is that devot--ed to the Venetian is represented by ?do o?d 5 o ^-*? 72 Route 8. MADRID. 5. Museo his admirable Holy Family of the Flower Pot. Titian contributesnearly forty paintings. To his early period belong the freely re-touched portrait of Alfonso dEste, and the Bacchanal and Fertil-ity, two allegorical-mythological works painted for that prince. Tohis middle and later periods belong the full-length portraits ofCharles V. and Philip II. and the equestrian portrait of Charles the battlefield of Muhlberg, three miracles of portraiture; theVenus and Danae ; and the allegorical works celebrating the gloriesof the Church and the victory of Lepanto. — Tintoretto is alsofinely represented by a series of noble works, some of which wereprocured through the efforts of Velazquez. — The later Venetians,from Paolo Veronese to Tiepolo, are also admirably represented. The Early Flbmish School is represented by interesting andgenuine works of Roger van derWeyden, the Master ofFlemalle, PetrusCristus, H. Bosch, Marin
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