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VILLA ALBANI, ROME.
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The unfortunate man succeeded in arousing help, and a doctor was fetched, only to pronounce
that at least two of the wounds were mortal. Winckelmann lived long enough to make his
will, and the register of the tribunal records that he died with the firmness of a hero and
the piety of a Christian, resigning himself to death without lamentations, and pardoning his
murderer. The latter was caught, convicted and broken on the wheel. His victim was buried
in Rome amid universal mourning, and his bust was placed in the Pantheon with an inscription
recording all that he had done for the cause of art. Another bust of him has since been placed
by Prince Torlonia in the garden that he loved.
The greatest service he rendered to art was to take the antique once more into the province
of the artist. Hitherto only antiquaries had written about it, it was only looked upon as
interesting from a historical or mythological point of view, but Winckelmann set it forth at once
as the standard and guide which all artists should keep before them.
The Cardinal lived for eleven years longer, and died at eighty-nine. In 1868 the villa was
bought by Prince Torlonia, who has spent enormous sums on keeping it up, improving it,
and repairing the ravages which time was beginning to make.
It is a fortunate thing that the great Cardinal’s famous collection has not been dispersed, but
remains a wonderful monument of beauty and interest, as well as a standing proof of the
magnificent liberality of those great art patrons of the past. E. M. P.
H3
The unfortunate man succeeded in arousing help, and a doctor was fetched, only to pronounce
that at least two of the wounds were mortal. Winckelmann lived long enough to make his
will, and the register of the tribunal records that he died with the firmness of a hero and
the piety of a Christian, resigning himself to death without lamentations, and pardoning his
murderer. The latter was caught, convicted and broken on the wheel. His victim was buried
in Rome amid universal mourning, and his bust was placed in the Pantheon with an inscription
recording all that he had done for the cause of art. Another bust of him has since been placed
by Prince Torlonia in the garden that he loved.
The greatest service he rendered to art was to take the antique once more into the province
of the artist. Hitherto only antiquaries had written about it, it was only looked upon as
interesting from a historical or mythological point of view, but Winckelmann set it forth at once
as the standard and guide which all artists should keep before them.
The Cardinal lived for eleven years longer, and died at eighty-nine. In 1868 the villa was
bought by Prince Torlonia, who has spent enormous sums on keeping it up, improving it,
and repairing the ravages which time was beginning to make.
It is a fortunate thing that the great Cardinal’s famous collection has not been dispersed, but
remains a wonderful monument of beauty and interest, as well as a standing proof of the
magnificent liberality of those great art patrons of the past. E. M. P.