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EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
they worked in a different spirit; they followed the
fashion of the hour. While he lived, his noble
aims elevated them, but when he died they fell
away one after another. The lavish and magni-
ficent Pope Leo X., was succeeded in 1521 by
Adrian VI., a man conscientious even to severity,
sparing even to asceticism, and without any sym-
pathies either for art or artists ; during his short
pontificate of two years all the works in the Vatican
and St. Peter’s were suspended ; the poor painters
were starving ; and the dreadful pestilence which
raged in 1523 drove many from the city. Under
Clement VII., one of the Medici, and nephew of
Leo X., the arts for a time revived ; but the sack
of Rome by the barbarous soldiery of Bourbon in
1527 completed the dispersion of the artists who
had flocked to the capital : each returning to his
native country or city, became also a teacher; and
thus what was called “ Raphael’s School,” or the
“ Roman School,”’ was spread from one end of Italy
to the other.
Raphael had left by his will his two favourite
scholars, Gian Francesco Penni and Giulio Romano,
as executors, and to them he bequeathed the task of
completing his unfinished works.
Gian Francesco Penni, called II Fattore, was
his beloved and confidential pupil, and had assisted
him much, particularly in preparing his cartoons ;
but everything he executed from his own mind and
EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
they worked in a different spirit; they followed the
fashion of the hour. While he lived, his noble
aims elevated them, but when he died they fell
away one after another. The lavish and magni-
ficent Pope Leo X., was succeeded in 1521 by
Adrian VI., a man conscientious even to severity,
sparing even to asceticism, and without any sym-
pathies either for art or artists ; during his short
pontificate of two years all the works in the Vatican
and St. Peter’s were suspended ; the poor painters
were starving ; and the dreadful pestilence which
raged in 1523 drove many from the city. Under
Clement VII., one of the Medici, and nephew of
Leo X., the arts for a time revived ; but the sack
of Rome by the barbarous soldiery of Bourbon in
1527 completed the dispersion of the artists who
had flocked to the capital : each returning to his
native country or city, became also a teacher; and
thus what was called “ Raphael’s School,” or the
“ Roman School,”’ was spread from one end of Italy
to the other.
Raphael had left by his will his two favourite
scholars, Gian Francesco Penni and Giulio Romano,
as executors, and to them he bequeathed the task of
completing his unfinished works.
Gian Francesco Penni, called II Fattore, was
his beloved and confidential pupil, and had assisted
him much, particularly in preparing his cartoons ;
but everything he executed from his own mind and