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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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ve of the fetes given by this personage tocelebrate the accession of the Emperor Ferdinand III. More probably,as has been surmised, Velazquez was the intermediary. The great Spanishpainter had been sent to Italy in 1649 with a roving commission to purchaseworks of art for his royal patron. He passed several months of thefollowing year in Rome, where he painted some portraits—notably that,now in the Doria Palace, of Innocent X., perhaps the most brilliantproduction of his brush—and was elected a member of the Academy ofSt. Luke. The order consisted according to Baldinucci of eight works, foursubjects from the Old Testament, four from the New. All these, withthe addition of two from the collection of Philip V., are now in thePrado. Time and the climate of Madrid have wrought havoc withseveral of the number. Those which have escaped unharmed showClaude at his best. Four of the set afFect a shape unusual with theartist, being upright compositions, i.e. greater in height than in width.
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05 Ok 55 5! 38 CLAUDE LORRAIN These are A View near the Forum with the Burial of Sta. Sabina (L. V. 48 J—-the figures attributed to Lauri,—a landscape with The Finding ofMoses (L. V. 47) and another with Tobit and the Archangel (JL. V. 50),the figures in both apparently by Courtois,—the fourth A Seaport,with the Embarkation of St. Paula. Of the last three replicas wereexecuted by Claude himself, and are now in the collections of the Dukeof Wellington, of Lord Portarlington, and in the Dulwich Gallery.The other four pictures of the Spanish commission are a landscape,The Ford, a moonlight scene with ruins and a figure of St. Anthonytempted by the devil, a wild and rugged desert with a figure of a.hermit praying, and a wooded landscape with waterfalls and a Magdalenkneeling before a cross. It was about the time of this commission, according to Baldinucci,that Claude, annoyed by the constant forgeries of his work, determinedto form an album containing sketches of all works produced

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