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EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
picture. In the beginning of the last century the
Elector of Saxony, Augustus III., purchased this
picture from the monks of the convent for the sum
of sixty thousand florins (about 60001.), and it now
forms the chief boast and ornament of the Dresden
Gallery. The finest engraving is that of Frederic
Muller, good impressions of which are worth twenty
or thirty guineas ; but there is also a very beautiful
and faithful lithograph by Hofstangel, which may
be purchased for half as many shillings.
For his patron Agostino Chigi Raphael painted
in fresco the history of Cupid and Psyche. The
palace which belonged to the Chigi family is now
the Villa Farnesina, on the walls of which these
famous frescoes may still be seen in very good pre-
servation. In Gruner’s admirable work on the
‘ Decoration of the Palaces and Churches in Italy ’
there is a perspective view of the corridor of the
Farnesina, showing how this beautiful series of
compositions is arranged on the ceiling and walls.
In the same palace he painted the Triumph of
Galatea: in this fresco he was greatly assisted by
Giulio Romano.
During the last ten years of his life the fame of
Raphael was very much extended by means of the
engraver Marc Antonio Raimondi, who, after study-
ing design in the school of Francia at Bologna,
betook himself to Rome, and gained the admiration
and goodwill of Raphael by the perfect engravings
EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
picture. In the beginning of the last century the
Elector of Saxony, Augustus III., purchased this
picture from the monks of the convent for the sum
of sixty thousand florins (about 60001.), and it now
forms the chief boast and ornament of the Dresden
Gallery. The finest engraving is that of Frederic
Muller, good impressions of which are worth twenty
or thirty guineas ; but there is also a very beautiful
and faithful lithograph by Hofstangel, which may
be purchased for half as many shillings.
For his patron Agostino Chigi Raphael painted
in fresco the history of Cupid and Psyche. The
palace which belonged to the Chigi family is now
the Villa Farnesina, on the walls of which these
famous frescoes may still be seen in very good pre-
servation. In Gruner’s admirable work on the
‘ Decoration of the Palaces and Churches in Italy ’
there is a perspective view of the corridor of the
Farnesina, showing how this beautiful series of
compositions is arranged on the ceiling and walls.
In the same palace he painted the Triumph of
Galatea: in this fresco he was greatly assisted by
Giulio Romano.
During the last ten years of his life the fame of
Raphael was very much extended by means of the
engraver Marc Antonio Raimondi, who, after study-
ing design in the school of Francia at Bologna,
betook himself to Rome, and gained the admiration
and goodwill of Raphael by the perfect engravings