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EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
service of Pope Paul III. (1534-1549), for whom
his finest productions were executed. He died in
1578, at the age of eighty.
Besides the Italians many painters came from
beyond the Alps to place themselves under the
tuition of Raphael; among these were Bernard von
Orlay from Brussels; Michael Coxcis from Mech-
lin ; and George Penz from Nuremberg. But
the influence of Raphael’s mind and style is not
very apparent in any of these painters, of whom we
shall have more to say hereafter. By George
Penz there is a beautiful portrait of Erasmus in
the Royal Gallery at Windsor.
Pedro Campana, who was a great favourite of
Charles V., carried the principles of the Roman
school into Spain.
On the whole we may say that while Michael
Angelo and Raphael displayed in all they did the
inspiration of genius, their scholars and imitators
inundated all Italy with mediocrity :
“ Art with hollow forms was fed,
But the soul of art lay dead.”
EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
service of Pope Paul III. (1534-1549), for whom
his finest productions were executed. He died in
1578, at the age of eighty.
Besides the Italians many painters came from
beyond the Alps to place themselves under the
tuition of Raphael; among these were Bernard von
Orlay from Brussels; Michael Coxcis from Mech-
lin ; and George Penz from Nuremberg. But
the influence of Raphael’s mind and style is not
very apparent in any of these painters, of whom we
shall have more to say hereafter. By George
Penz there is a beautiful portrait of Erasmus in
the Royal Gallery at Windsor.
Pedro Campana, who was a great favourite of
Charles V., carried the principles of the Roman
school into Spain.
On the whole we may say that while Michael
Angelo and Raphael displayed in all they did the
inspiration of genius, their scholars and imitators
inundated all Italy with mediocrity :
“ Art with hollow forms was fed,
But the soul of art lay dead.”