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Os Drawing) Limning,
pointed, and to see it want nothing fitting. Whenhe
under It ood thus much by Raphael's Letter, he opened
the Case with great joy, and set the Piece in a good
and fair light; which when he had throughly viewed,
he was o amazed, and grew so out of conceit os him-
s elf and his own Work, confessing his Work to be no-
thing, in respeft of Raphael Vrbine : which so struck
him to the heart, that he died ( presently aster he
had set the Piece n his place) Anno 1518. The fame
of Raphael Vrbine at this time was so great, that he
Was sought fcr, and employed by the greatest Princes
of Europe)as namely the PopesAdrian and Leo: Fran-
cis the first, King os France : Henry the Eighth, King
os England3 the Dukes ofFlorence^Vrbine^ {JHantuay
and divers others. Thoss siately Hangings of Arras,
containing the Hislory of S. Paul out os the Atts (than
which, eye never beheld moreabsolute Art,and which
long since you might have seen in the Banquetting-
House at White-Hall ) were wholly os his invention,
bought(\f I be not deeeived)by King Henry the eighth
of the £tate of Venice, where Raphael Vrbine died, l
have no certainty, but Cure I am, his memory and im-
mortal Fame are like to live in the World for ever.
Isyou would read the Lives at large of the most exf-
cellent Painters, as well Ancient as Modern> I refer
you unto the two Volumes os Vasari, well writ-
ten in Italian (which J have not seen, as being
hard to come by 5 yet in the Libraries os two my
cspecial and worthy friends, M. Doctor Mountsord3
late Prebend of Pauls ; and M. Inigo Jones j^Surveyer
of his Majesties Works for Building : ) and Calvin
Mander in high Dutch j unto whom I am beholden,
for the greater part os what 1 have here written, of
seme of their Lives.
There be several Books extant, in several Lan-
guages, concerning this Subjest of Painting. Among
others, Fran. Juniusy ds pissura veterum: was, not
snany years agoe. Printed in London, And likewife
pointed, and to see it want nothing fitting. Whenhe
under It ood thus much by Raphael's Letter, he opened
the Case with great joy, and set the Piece in a good
and fair light; which when he had throughly viewed,
he was o amazed, and grew so out of conceit os him-
s elf and his own Work, confessing his Work to be no-
thing, in respeft of Raphael Vrbine : which so struck
him to the heart, that he died ( presently aster he
had set the Piece n his place) Anno 1518. The fame
of Raphael Vrbine at this time was so great, that he
Was sought fcr, and employed by the greatest Princes
of Europe)as namely the PopesAdrian and Leo: Fran-
cis the first, King os France : Henry the Eighth, King
os England3 the Dukes ofFlorence^Vrbine^ {JHantuay
and divers others. Thoss siately Hangings of Arras,
containing the Hislory of S. Paul out os the Atts (than
which, eye never beheld moreabsolute Art,and which
long since you might have seen in the Banquetting-
House at White-Hall ) were wholly os his invention,
bought(\f I be not deeeived)by King Henry the eighth
of the £tate of Venice, where Raphael Vrbine died, l
have no certainty, but Cure I am, his memory and im-
mortal Fame are like to live in the World for ever.
Isyou would read the Lives at large of the most exf-
cellent Painters, as well Ancient as Modern> I refer
you unto the two Volumes os Vasari, well writ-
ten in Italian (which J have not seen, as being
hard to come by 5 yet in the Libraries os two my
cspecial and worthy friends, M. Doctor Mountsord3
late Prebend of Pauls ; and M. Inigo Jones j^Surveyer
of his Majesties Works for Building : ) and Calvin
Mander in high Dutch j unto whom I am beholden,
for the greater part os what 1 have here written, of
seme of their Lives.
There be several Books extant, in several Lan-
guages, concerning this Subjest of Painting. Among
others, Fran. Juniusy ds pissura veterum: was, not
snany years agoe. Printed in London, And likewife