DOI Kapitel:
Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and their Works
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.61295#0487
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time Raphael arrived in Florence; he was but twenty-one, but
already a great painter; he visited the friar’s cell, and a deep friend-
ship between the two was the consequence; to this we owe the after
w@rks of Fra Bartolommeo. Raphael instructed him in perspective,
and he in turn gave new ideas of drapery to Raphael. Fra Bar-
tolommeo was the first to employ lay figures in the study of drapery;
he also imparted to Raphael his mode of coloring. The examination
of the works of these painters will prove that from this time both
of them produced more excellent pictures than they had done before;
the friar had caught an intellectual grace from his young friend, and
Raphael had advanced in color and drapery. About 1513, Fra
THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS. BY FRA BARTOLOMMEO.
In the Pitti Gall.
Bartolommeo was allowed to go to Rome. This visit was doubtless
a deep joy to him, but the beauties of what he saw so far exceeded
his imaginations, that he seems to have been stupefied; he made no
attempt to equal or excel the artists about him, and only commenced
two figures of SS. Peter and Paul, which Raphael finished after his
return to Florence. When once more in his convent, Bartolommeo
showed the benefit he had received, and executed the “Madonna
della Misericordia,” now at Lucca, and considered by many as his
most important work. It had been said that he could do nothing
grand; he now painted the “ S. Mark ” which is in the Pitti Pal., and
is so simply grand as to be compared to the remains of Grecian art.
He only lived four years after going to Rome, and died at a time
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465
time Raphael arrived in Florence; he was but twenty-one, but
already a great painter; he visited the friar’s cell, and a deep friend-
ship between the two was the consequence; to this we owe the after
w@rks of Fra Bartolommeo. Raphael instructed him in perspective,
and he in turn gave new ideas of drapery to Raphael. Fra Bar-
tolommeo was the first to employ lay figures in the study of drapery;
he also imparted to Raphael his mode of coloring. The examination
of the works of these painters will prove that from this time both
of them produced more excellent pictures than they had done before;
the friar had caught an intellectual grace from his young friend, and
Raphael had advanced in color and drapery. About 1513, Fra
THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS. BY FRA BARTOLOMMEO.
In the Pitti Gall.
Bartolommeo was allowed to go to Rome. This visit was doubtless
a deep joy to him, but the beauties of what he saw so far exceeded
his imaginations, that he seems to have been stupefied; he made no
attempt to equal or excel the artists about him, and only commenced
two figures of SS. Peter and Paul, which Raphael finished after his
return to Florence. When once more in his convent, Bartolommeo
showed the benefit he had received, and executed the “Madonna
della Misericordia,” now at Lucca, and considered by many as his
most important work. It had been said that he could do nothing
grand; he now painted the “ S. Mark ” which is in the Pitti Pal., and
is so simply grand as to be compared to the remains of Grecian art.
He only lived four years after going to Rome, and died at a time
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