. Italian wall decorations of the 15th and 16th centuries : A handbook to the models, illustrating interiors of Italian buildings, in the Victoria and Albert museum, South Kensington. :-, BiJfc- i .. The Bench for the Notaries. ( PUBLIC j THE HALL OF EXCHANGE, PERUGIA. 75 frescoes of the Hall to the year 1499 and the firstmonths of the year 1500, while Marchesi asserts that agreater time elapsed before their completion, and that theywere most likely painted between the years 1500 and1507. To tell the truth, I dissent from both theseopinions, as it seems to me that to complete so manypaintings
. Italian wall decorations of the 15th and 16th centuries : A handbook to the models, illustrating interiors of Italian buildings, in the Victoria and Albert museum, South Kensington. :-, BiJfc- i .. The Bench for the Notaries. ( PUBLIC j THE HALL OF EXCHANGE, PERUGIA. 75 frescoes of the Hall to the year 1499 and the firstmonths of the year 1500, while Marchesi asserts that agreater time elapsed before their completion, and that theywere most likely painted between the years 1500 and1507. To tell the truth, I dissent from both theseopinions, as it seems to me that to complete so manypaintings a great deal more than one year was required(as Rossi himself admits). The more so as the figuresof the profane subjects, as well as the picture of the Transfiguration, were exclusively designed for this place,no other figures of the same class being met with inany of the previous works by the painter either in Rome,Florence, or in any other part of Italy. Nor can Iagree with Marchesi in his suggestion that the paintingswere begun in the year 1500, because this date alludesto the year in which they were completed, it being Pietrosinvariable habit to mark his pictures with the date of theyear
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