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Title: The study and criticism of Italian art : second series
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959
Subjects: Art, Italian Painting, Italian
Publisher: London : G. Bell and sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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l not insult the readers intelligenceby drawing his attention to detail. It will suffice topoint out the striking resemblance between theMadonna of the drawing and the angel on theextreme right in the altar-piece, between the headsof the two children and the expression in all thefaces. Since the above was written, my friend, Mr.Herbert Cook, has published in the Gazette desBeaux Arts (Troisieme Periode, tome xxiii., p. 410)a version of Raphaels Vierge avec lEnfant debout,belonging to Miss Macintosh of London,1 which,through his kindness, I am able to reproduce. With-out discussing how much of this picture came fromRaphaels own hand, and whether a more authenticversion ever existed, it certainly is the least un-worthy of the master among all the versions knownto me. It is interesting, therefore, to compare thecartoon with the painting. The first thing thatstrikes us is that this cartoon could not possibly have 1 Exhibited in Winter Exhibition, Burlington House, 1902,No. 82. BRESCIANINO
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Anderson photo.) Wffizi, Florence THE VIRGIN AND CHILD, WITH SAINTS -RAPHAEL CARTOON 47 served for the painting. Not only is the differencein spirit and expression considerable, not only arethey of entirely different quality, but there are end-less quantitative variations as well. Thus, in thepicture, the oval is much more delicate, whereas inthe cartoon, as in Brescianinos other pictures, it isbroader and fuller. In the cartoon the Madonnasright hand has not at all the same form as in thepicture, and her left, instead of holding the Child,grasps her drapery, as in Beccafumis picture. Moststriking of all is the bareness of the sleeve in thecartoon contrasted with the ample draping in thepicture. The more one compares Miss Macintoshs versionof the Vierge avec 1Enfant debout with theBritish Museum cartoon, the more clearly one realizesthat they are not by the same hand; whereas, themore one studies the drawing in connection with thepaintings of Brescianino, the stronger must growones co

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