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SCHOLARS OF RAPHAEL. 167
important works are to be found in the palaces and
churches of that city.
When Charles I. purchased the entire collection
of the Dukes of Mantua in 1629, there were among
them many pictures by Giulio Romano ; one of
these was the admirable copy of Raphael’s fresco
of the battle between Constantine and Maxentius,
now in the guard-room at Hampton Court; in the
same gallery are seven others, all mythological,
and characteristic certainly, but by no means fa-
vourable specimens of his genius ; they have be-
sides been coarsely painted over by some restorer,
so as to retain no trace of the original workman-
ship. The most important picture which came
into the possession of King Charles was a Nativity,
a large altar-piece, which after the king’s death
was sold into France : it is now in the Louvre
(1075). A very pretty little picture is the Venus
persuading Vulcan to forge the arrows of Cupid ;
also in the Louvre (1077), from which the group
of Cupids in the illustration has been taken. En-
gravings after Giulio Romano are very commonly
met with.
Giulio Romano was invited by Francis I. to
undertake the decoration of his palace at Fontaine-
bleau, but not being able to leave Mantua, he sent
his pupil Primaticcio, who covered the walls with
frescoes and arabesques, much in the manner of
those in the Palazzo del Te; that is to say, with
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