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the finest of Titian’s works, in particular the Ecce
Homo which had belonged to the Duke of Buck-
ingham, a large picture consisting of seventeen
figures, for which Thomas Howard, Earl of
Arundel, had offered the Duke £7000 sterling, in
money or in land; and although, at the sacking
of that city by the Swedes, many of the finest
works of Titian and Correggio had been carried
off and afterwards were in the possession of Chris-
tina of Sweden, yet many fine pictures still re-
main, which renders it worthy the attention of the
amateur of painting. Mr. Buchanan, however,
found it necessary to take the route of Frankfort
on the Main, whence, after visiting Heidelberg,
where there was a capital collection of all the early
German and Flemish masters, he determined on
crossing the country from the Rhine to the Danube,
in as direct a line as possible, being anxious to get
to Munich before the winter should set in.
Heidelberg is one of the most beautiful and
picturesque situations in Germany. Its superb
chateau was built after the designs of Raphael and
Julio Romano, and although the castellar part is
now in ruins, yet the interior fagade of the build-
ing presents one of the most interesting examples
of that delicate and chaste style of architecture
which was introduced into Italy about the period
the finest of Titian’s works, in particular the Ecce
Homo which had belonged to the Duke of Buck-
ingham, a large picture consisting of seventeen
figures, for which Thomas Howard, Earl of
Arundel, had offered the Duke £7000 sterling, in
money or in land; and although, at the sacking
of that city by the Swedes, many of the finest
works of Titian and Correggio had been carried
off and afterwards were in the possession of Chris-
tina of Sweden, yet many fine pictures still re-
main, which renders it worthy the attention of the
amateur of painting. Mr. Buchanan, however,
found it necessary to take the route of Frankfort
on the Main, whence, after visiting Heidelberg,
where there was a capital collection of all the early
German and Flemish masters, he determined on
crossing the country from the Rhine to the Danube,
in as direct a line as possible, being anxious to get
to Munich before the winter should set in.
Heidelberg is one of the most beautiful and
picturesque situations in Germany. Its superb
chateau was built after the designs of Raphael and
Julio Romano, and although the castellar part is
now in ruins, yet the interior fagade of the build-
ing presents one of the most interesting examples
of that delicate and chaste style of architecture
which was introduced into Italy about the period