The early work of Raphael . ve rendered it. A replica of the latter picture but of inferior merit—possibly bysome pupil of Claudes—-hangs in the Dulwich Gallery. There is anetching by Claude of the same subject bearing in its first date, the date1636, which may serve as an indication of the approximate date of thepicture. It was apparently about this time that Claude came under the noticeand the protection of Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio, one of the mostdistinguished prelates of the Roman Court, and one of the ablestdiplomatists of the day. The Cardinal had been Papal Nuncio in Flanders during t
The early work of Raphael . ve rendered it. A replica of the latter picture but of inferior merit—possibly bysome pupil of Claudes—-hangs in the Dulwich Gallery. There is anetching by Claude of the same subject bearing in its first date, the date1636, which may serve as an indication of the approximate date of thepicture. It was apparently about this time that Claude came under the noticeand the protection of Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio, one of the mostdistinguished prelates of the Roman Court, and one of the ablestdiplomatists of the day. The Cardinal had been Papal Nuncio in Flanders during the wars,and subsequently at the Court of France. As the result of the formermission he published a work entitled History of the War in Flanders,which went through several editions in the original Italian, was translatedinto English, French, and Spanish, and earned for its author a Europeanreputation as a man of letters. From the latter mission he returnedhaving won high favour with Louis XIII., and received the title of. Cardinal Bentivoglio, by Van Dyck. Pitti a photograph by G. Brogi. By permission. 3o CLAUDE LORR/tIN Protector of France at the Papal Court. He lives for us still, an Italian of the type produced by the counter-Reformation 1 in thenoble portrait, familiar to all visitors to the Pitti, which Vandyck, whowas his guest in Rome from 1622 to 1624, painted of him, and in thememoirs which he himself has left us. Unfortunately these memoirswere only carried down to the beginning of the seventeenth century. Weare thus deprived of the interesting details which the Cardinal mighthave given us about the artists and litterati whom, in later life, hebefriended. For this influential patron Claude painted two commission proved the turning-point in the artists career. TheCardinal, who was an old and intimate friend of the then PopeUrban VIII., brought these works under the notice of the Pontiff, andaroused his interest in the young painter. Urba
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