Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
September 1886
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/44
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    similar in design to the arabesques, supported on «a gut and carved tripod stand, £21. (On two medallions facing each other :) RAPH.IN. 1520 This exquisite piece of ornamental and pictorial art, was produced by Raphael in the very year in which he died, for Cardinal della Valle, a great patron of art and learning, who was renowned for his collections of classical monuments. He was made Cardinal in 1513, died in 1534, and was of the same family from which the celebrated traveller issued a few genera- tions later.—This design of Raphael may have been intended for the adornment of the archiepiscopal palace at Melito, which the Cardinal projected on a scheme of grand magnificence. The great painter furnished architectural and decorative plans to many of his patrons. forked branches of a tree, and Downfal of the Idols, two exquisite Miniatures, 7} x 6 inches, painted on vellum and framed as separate pictures, £50. About 1560-70 The harmonies of colour are so lovely that they fascinate the eye before it has had time to perceive the beauty of the design and the mastery of composition in these two paintings. The figures and faces are very fine. Although attributed as above to Giulio Clovio, about 1560-70, it is equally probable that they are the work of Ludovico da Cigoli about 1585. In the background of each rise the towers and houses of a great city. INGS by Johann van Straet or Stradanus, of Field Sports, the chase of Wild Animals, Fowling, Fishing, etc. mounted in a vol. atlas folio, old red morocco, gilt edges, £80. | 1589 These original Drawings of the celebrated Painter of full power and cunning of the artist’s hand. Many of them were engraved by Ph. Galle and other contemporaries of the painter; but the fine artistic finish of the drawings is lost in the prints. Flemish by race and character, but Italian by training and residence, Stradanus belonged as an artist to the Italian school. His love for delineating Scenes of Sport and Hunting was however a characteristic (as Eastlake observes) of his northern nature, and its traces appear in his work. He was born at Bruges in 1535; died at Florence in 1618. A couple of Drawings by Hans Bol, 1575, are included in the number. One of the designs of Stradanus contains a
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