The early work of Raphael . landscape to another, and concludes hissomewhat verbose panegyric by saying that any connoisseur can judgefrom this work that our Claude attained the height of renown in paintinglandscape. The fashion of frescoing apartments with landscape subjects wasnot entirely a novelty at that date. It had come into fashion at Romein the sixteenth century. Claude seems to have carried the style toperfection. We can well imagine how the taste of his day would applaudsuch trompe £cVil effects as Sandrart mentions. To the seventeenth century it must have seemed almost as great awo
The early work of Raphael . landscape to another, and concludes hissomewhat verbose panegyric by saying that any connoisseur can judgefrom this work that our Claude attained the height of renown in paintinglandscape. The fashion of frescoing apartments with landscape subjects wasnot entirely a novelty at that date. It had come into fashion at Romein the sixteenth century. Claude seems to have carried the style toperfection. We can well imagine how the taste of his day would applaudsuch trompe £cVil effects as Sandrart mentions. To the seventeenth century it must have seemed almost as great awork of genius to turn a room into an imitation forest, as to plant analley of trees, lop their lower parts into the semblance of a wall and theupper into arches, or to prune a yew-hedge into the form of a peacock ora pyramid ! The Muti-Papazurri palace still exists. It stands at the cornerof the Piazza SS. Apostoli and the Piazza Pilota. Since Claudes dayit has changed its owners and its name more than once (it is now known. Sketch from Nature. British Museum. 24 CLAUDE LORRAIN as Palazzo Balestra), and sheltered more than one figure of history andromance. The tourist glances at it with curiosity as having been theresidence of the last of the Stuarts and of the beautiful young CountessSavorelli the Tolla of Edmund Abouts novel. Lady Dilke was the first to call attention to the existence in thispalace of a frescoed room. This room is on the ground floor. It is along narrow gallery with three windows on each side and a lofty vaultedroof. The walls and the ceiling are frescoed, the latter with cupids andmythological subjects, the former with castles, ruins, trees and stretchesof water. Notwithstanding the fact that these frescoes tally only in avery vague fashion with Sandrarts description of his friends work, anddespite a tradition which ascribes them to Poussin and his pupils, it isnot impossible that they may be the remains of Claudes work, renovatedfrom time to time by the hou
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