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Title: Sketches of great painters for young people
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dallin, Colonna Murray, Mrs
Subjects: Painters
Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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passed out of the royalpossessions, but they were afterward restored. KingWilliam III. had the parts united, and a room was builtat Whitehall Palace to receive them. They were loanedsome years ago to the South Kensington Museum, wherethey now remain. The tapestries also suffered manychanges of fortune. In the course of time some havebeen lost, but in 1814 the remaining ones were restoredto the Vatican. During the years in which Raphael was employed indecorating the Vatican and in designing the cartoons forthe Sistine Chapel, he executed many easel pictures.Among them were portraits, Madonnas, Holy Families,and pictures on various sacred subjects, besides thecelebrated fresco of G-alatea. A story is told which proves that Michelangeloappreciated the genius of the man who thanked Heaventhat he was born in the same century with the creatorof the Sistine frescoes. Raphael had been decoratingthe Church of Santa Maria della Pace, and when hehad finished his frescoes, he informed his patrons
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Raphael. Portrait of Himself. 73 74 SKETCHES OF GREAT PAINTERS. cashier what amount was clue him. The cashierthought the artist had already received enough pay,and he gave no attention to the demand. Raphael thenproposed that the work should be estimated by somegood judge to see if he had asked an exorbitant price. The cashier, knowing that Michelangelo was gener-ally supposed to be jealous of Raphael, chose the greatsculptor to judge of the work. But when Michelangelostood before the pictures, he was filled with enthusiasmand admiration. Well, said the cashier, what isyour judgment upon the frescoes? That headalone, said Michelangelo, is worth a hundred scudi,and the others are not worth less. When this wasreported to Agostino Chigi, the man who had given thecommission, he said, Pay the artist immediately threehundred scudi and be very courteous to him, so that hewill be satisfied; for if he should insist on my payingalso for the drapery, I shall be ruined. Many remarkable portraits

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