The early work of Raphael (1895) (14780252165)

Identifier: earlyworkofrapha00adyj (find matches)
Title: The early work of Raphael
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ady, Julia Mary Cartwright, d. 1924
Subjects: Raphael, 1483-1520
Publisher: London : Seeley and Co., Ltd. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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Waltu-igofCsMSc. CJ. CJcfroAtian. THE EARLY WORK OF RAPHAEL 29 usual landscape of green slopes and slender trees, but a lake with a boatsailing upon its waters and distant hills capped with the first winters snow.This little work, charmingly composed and painted with gem-like finishand brightness, passed from the heirs of the Alfani to the Conestabile-
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The Conestabile Madonna. By Raphael. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.From a photograph by Braun, Clement et Cie, by permission. Staffa family, and was sold in 1871 by Count Scipione Conestabile ofPerugia to the late Empress of Russia for the sum of 330,000 francs. Two other small pictures also belong to this period, and must havebeen painted about 1503 at Perugia. One is the little Salvator Mundi 30 THE EARLY WORK OF RAPHAEL in the gallery of Brescia, a half-length figure of the risen Christ wearinga crown of green thorns, and raising his pierced hand in blessing, whichoriginally belonged to a family of Pesaro, in the Duchy of Urbino. Theother is the St. Sebastian bearing a dart in his hand, now in the BergamoGallery. The lovely features of the youthful martyr recall the faces ofPeruginos Saints and the Evangelist of Raphaels own Crucifixion, therich embroideries of his tunic might have been painted by anyPerugian Sartist, but in the mass of the Saints curling locks and thebeauty of