Memoirs of the early Italian painters / by Anna Jameson; thoroughly revised and in part rewritten by Estelle M. Hurll.
- Anna Brownell Jameson
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Memoirs of the early Italian painters / by Anna Jameson; thoroughly revised and in part rewritten by Estelle M. Hurll. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Primaticcio tures by Giulio Romano; one of these was the admirable copy of Raphael’s fresco of the battle between Constantine and Maxentius, now at Hampton Court;1 in the same [palace] are seven others, all mythological, and characteristic certainly, but by no means favorable specimens of his genius; they have, besides, been coarsely painted over by some restorer, so as to retain no trace of the original workmanship. The most im- portant picture which came into the possession of King Charles was a Nativity, a large altar-piece, which after the king’s death was sold into France: it is now in the Louvre. A very 1 [It is not mentioned in Ernest Law’s catalogue.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24877888_0254.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
