Identifier: raphael00kono (find matches)
Title: Raphael
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Konody, Paul G. (Paul George), 1872-1933
Subjects: Raphael, 1483-1520
Publisher: London : T.C. & E.C. Jack New York : F.A. Stokes Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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executedunder his directions, than as a master whois to be held responsible for the workingout of every detail in the works which wereturned out from his bottega with his sanc-tion, and under his name. Even in the earlyyears of his Roman period, comparativelyfew of the altar-pieces and easel picturescommissioned from him were entirely thework of his brush. In the ever popular Madonna della Sedia, at the Pitti Palace,we have pure Raphael, and also in themasterpiece known as the Madonna diFoligno, which was painted for the Popes PLATE VII.—PUTTO WITH GARLAND The fresco of a puttOt now at the Academy of St. Luca inRome, is the only fragment that is left to the world of all thedecorative work executed by Raphael for the corridor leading fromthe famous Stanze of the Vatican to the Belvedere. It probablybelonged to a shield bearing the papal arms, and is a graceful andcharacteristic example of the masters treatment of the form ofchildren which he loved to introduce into his compositions.
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RAPHAEL 6i Chamberlain Sigismondi dei Conti, for hisfamily chapel in the church of Ara Coeliin 1512, in commemoration of this dignitarysescape from a bursting fireball, as is indi-cated by the meteor in the landscape back-ground. This picture was subsequentlyremoved to Sigismondos birthplace Foligno,whence it was carried off by the Frenchin 1797, but had to be eventually restored,and is now among the treasures of theVatican. The sadly deteriorated Madonnaof the Tower, at the National Gallery, andthe Madonna di Casa dAlba, at the Her-mitage, are probably of the masters ownexecution; but Giulio Romano and otherpupils must be held responsible for theVierge au Diad^me, the Madonna deldivino Amore, the Garvagh Madonna,the Madonna of the Fish, the Madonnaof the Candelabra, and several other well-known pictures for which Raphael hadsupplied the designs. 62 RAPHAEL IV A letter written by Raphael to his uncleSimone Ciarla on the ist of July 1514 is ofincalculable importance for the light itthr

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