Identifier: stnicholasv9part1dodgrich (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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is worksof art to his pupils, Giulio Romano and FrancescoPenni; he gave his house to Cardinal Bibbiena: heordered a house to be purchased with a thousandscudi, the rent of which should pay for twelvemasses to be said monthly on the altar of hisburial chapel; and this wish was observed until1705, when the rent of the house was too smallto pay for these services. The remainder of hisriches was divided among his relatives. There was for many years a skull in the Acad-emy of St. Luke, at Rome, which was called thatof Raphael, although there was no good reasonfor this. At length, in 1833, three hundred andthirteen years after his death, some antiquariansbegan to dispute about this skull, and received per-mission from the Pope, Gregory .XVL, to make asearch for the bones of Raphael in the Pantheon. After five days spent in carefully removing thepavement in several places, the skeleton of thegreat master was found, and with it such proofs a&made it impossible to doubt that the bones were
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THE SISTINE MADONNA.—PAINTED BY RAPHAEL. SPECIALLY REPRODlCED FOR ST. NICHOLAS. i88i.) WHAT MAKES THE GRASSES GROW? 121 really his. Finally, a grand funeral service washeld. Gregory XVI. gave a marble sarcophagus,in which the bones were placed and interred rever-ently in their old resting-place. More than threethousand people attended the burial ceremony,among whom were the persons of the highestrank in Rome, and many artists of all nations,who moved about the cliurch in a procession,bearing torches, while beautiful music was chant-ed by a concealed choir. The number and amount of Raphaels works aremarvelous when the shortness of his life is remem- bered. He left behind him two hundred andeiglity-seven pictures and five hundred and sev-enty-six drawings and studies. It was not any one trait or talent which madeRaphael so great, but it was a rare combinationof faculties, and a personal charm which won allhearts, that entitled him to be called the greatestmodern painter. His famous pi

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