This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XV. A BRIEF SKETCH OF TI1E LIFE AND ■WORKS OF RAPHAEL, AND A COMPARISON BETWEEN HIS GENIUS AND THAT OF MICHAEL ANGELO. In the year 1520, Raphael was cut off in the prime of youthful manhood, and in the zenith, of his brilliant fortune. That two such artists as himself and Michael Angelo ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XV. A BRIEF SKETCH OF TI1E LIFE AND ■WORKS OF RAPHAEL, AND A COMPARISON BETWEEN HIS GENIUS AND THAT OF MICHAEL ANGELO. In the year 1520, Raphael was cut off in the prime of youthful manhood, and in the zenith, of his brilliant fortune. That two such artists as himself and Michael Angelo should have been employed at one and the same time within the palace of the Vatican, and within a few yards of each other, upon works of such transcendant reputation, is so remarkable an event, that we feel impelled, after all that has been said of the one, to pay, before parting from the other, a passing tribute to his imperishable name and memory. "Purpureos spargam flores et fungar inani Munere." * * In addition to my own intimate and repeated studies of the works of Raphael, I have examined, and in various instances profited by, in drawing up this sketch, Platner's Dissertation on his Genius, his Life by Passavant (with the aid of a German friend), that also by Sir Charles Eastlake, in his "Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts," and the very able notice of him by Kiigler in his Handbook, to say nothing of Vasari and various others. Born at Urbino, on Good Friday, March 29. 1483, he lost his mother in 1491. His father, Giovanni Santi, made a second marriage, but died in 1494. Neither his stepmother, nor his guardian, Don Bartolomeo, his father's brother, gained any influence over Raphael. Their quarrels made his home wretched; but he found a most kind friend and protector in his maternal uncle, Simone di Battista Ciarla, who won his entire confidence, and was looked up to by him as a father.* By his influence he was sent, in the year 1495, at twelve years of age, to Perugia, in order to become the pupil of Pietro Vannucci, ...
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All Editions of The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti: With Translations of Many of His Poems and Letters. Also Memoirs of Savonarola, Raphael, and Vittoria Colonna
