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RAPHAEL SANZIO d’uRBINO. 101
Bristol. The original is in the Pitti Palace at
Florence.
Also at this time Raphael painted the portrait of
himself, which is preserved in the Gallery of
Painters at Florence; it represents him as a very
handsome young man with luxuriant hair and dark
eyes, full lips, and a pensive yet benign counte-
nance.* To this period we may also refer a number
of beautiful Madonnas: Lord Garvagh’s, called
the Aldobrandini Madonna ; the Virgin of the
Bridgewater Gallery; the Vierge au Diademe in
the Louvre; and the yet more famous Madonna
di Foligno, now at Rome in the Vatican.
While employed for Pope Julius in executing
the frescoes already described, Raphael found a
munificent friend and patron in Agostino Chigi, a
Meh banker and merchant who was then living at
Rome in great splendour. He painted several pic-
tures for him: the four Sibyls in the chapel of
the Chigi family, in the church of Santa Maria
della Pace, sublime figures, full of grandeur and
inspiration ; and, on the wall of a chamber in his
Palace, that elegant fresco the Triumph of Ga-
latea, well known from the numerous engravings.
About the year 1510 Raphael began the decora-
tion of the second chamber of the Vatican. In
* There is an engraving by Pontius. The head, engraved
by Raphael Morghen as the portrait of Raphael, is now con-
sidered to be the portrait of Bindo Altoviti. It is at Munich
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Bristol. The original is in the Pitti Palace at
Florence.
Also at this time Raphael painted the portrait of
himself, which is preserved in the Gallery of
Painters at Florence; it represents him as a very
handsome young man with luxuriant hair and dark
eyes, full lips, and a pensive yet benign counte-
nance.* To this period we may also refer a number
of beautiful Madonnas: Lord Garvagh’s, called
the Aldobrandini Madonna ; the Virgin of the
Bridgewater Gallery; the Vierge au Diademe in
the Louvre; and the yet more famous Madonna
di Foligno, now at Rome in the Vatican.
While employed for Pope Julius in executing
the frescoes already described, Raphael found a
munificent friend and patron in Agostino Chigi, a
Meh banker and merchant who was then living at
Rome in great splendour. He painted several pic-
tures for him: the four Sibyls in the chapel of
the Chigi family, in the church of Santa Maria
della Pace, sublime figures, full of grandeur and
inspiration ; and, on the wall of a chamber in his
Palace, that elegant fresco the Triumph of Ga-
latea, well known from the numerous engravings.
About the year 1510 Raphael began the decora-
tion of the second chamber of the Vatican. In
* There is an engraving by Pontius. The head, engraved
by Raphael Morghen as the portrait of Raphael, is now con-
sidered to be the portrait of Bindo Altoviti. It is at Munich
VOL« II. p