Paris and environs with routes from London to Paris : handbook for travellers / by Karl Baedeker.

  • Karl Baedeker
Date:
1913
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Credit: Paris and environs with routes from London to Paris : handbook for travellers / by Karl Baedeker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    '^Salon Carr6 (IV). This is the place of honour assigned to the Italian School and notably to the great Venetian decorators. Ceiling richly sculptured by Simart. To the right of tlie entrance: *1136. Giorgione, Rustic festival, with charming colouring, golden tlesh-tones, and a rich landscane (comp. p. 120). *1597. Leon, da Vinci, John the Baptist (comp. p. 119). **1117. Correggio, Betrothal of St. Catharine of Alexandria; so beautiful are the faces that they seem to have been painted in Paradise’, says Vasari. loOi). Itaphael, Portrait of Count Baldassare Castiglione (who wrote a poem on this picture), painted about 1516, with masterlv drawing and colour (comp. p. 120). **1589. Titian, kWegory painted for Alfonso d’Avalos, Marchese del Vasto (d. 1546); the general taking leave of his wife, sister of Johanna of Aragon, when summoned by the emperor to Vienna in 1532 to light against the Turks. *1731. Velazquez, Infanta Mary Margaret, afterwards wife of Leopold I. of Austria. *1590. Titian, ‘La Maitresse du Titien’, a girl at a toilet-table, with a man behind her with two mirrors, probably Laura de’ Dianti and Duke Alfonso of Ferrara, painted shortly after 1520. Above: *1193. Paolo Veronese, Christ in the house of Simon the Pharisee (1570-75). — *1464. Tintoretto, Susanna in the bath. — Above, 1221. Ann. Caracci, Pieta. *1498. Raphael, ‘Holy Family of Francis I.’ (Rome, 1518- comp. p. 120). Above, 1455. Guido Reni, Hercules and Achelous. *741. N. Poussin, Diogenes casting away his bowl, a serene and luminous work. — Above, 1427. J. da Ponte(Ba.ssanoJ,Descent from the Cross. —1673. ]'enetian Sch. (lOth Cent.), Portrait of a young woman. **1496. Raphael, Madonna and Child with St. John ‘La Belle Jardiniere’ (1507; comp. p. 120). ’ *1644. Italian Sch. (16th Cent.), Portrait of a youth, attributed successively to Raphael, Francia, Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, Francia- bigio, Bugiardini, Albertinclli, and Bacchiacca. — Above, 437. Jouvenet, Descent from Cross (1697). Over the door: ’ll5o! Barocci, Virgin enthroned. *1598. Leon, da Vinci, Madonna, the Child, and St. Anne (comp, p. 119). This picture was brought to France by Leonardo. After nis death it was sent back to Italy, where Richelieu bought it in 1629. The drapery of the Madonna has lost its colour.—There are several sketches for this picture at Windsor. Above, 1453. Guido Reni, Hercules on the funeral pyre. On the other wall: 1179. Paris Bm'done, Portrait of a man.—
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