Buchanan, William: Memoirs of painting: with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the great masters into England since the French Revolution (Band 1) (London: Ackermann, 1824)

ROMAN SCHOOL.—julio bomano.

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Italian states. Pope Leo X., his friend and patron,
accompanied his remains to the tomb; while this
grand cortege was preceded by the Transfigura-
tion itself, carried as it were in triumph, to prove
to the world, that although the body was dead,
his soul and glory should live for ever.

JULIO PIPPI,
CALLED
JULIO ROMANO.
Born—1492.
Died—1546.
The style of this great painter, the friend and
principal scholar of Raphael, is truly historical.
More bold and aspiring than his master, although
without his suavity and grace, his poetic genius
was admirably calculated for those compositions
in which he so much excelled; his battles and
triumphal processions will ever stand as monu-
ments of his great talents.
Mason, in his translation of Dufresnoy’s poem
de Arte Graphica, has given in a happy manner
the following lines:
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