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spirit_n	age_n	year_n	young_a	352	4	5.7811	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57086	The true effigies of the most eminent painters and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe curiously engraven on copper-plates : together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works ...	Resta, Sebastiano.; Meyssens, Jean, 1612-ca. 1670.; Galle, Théodore, 1571-1633.	1694 (1694)	Wing R1174; ESTC R6548	70,371	270

to be expressed how earnestly and intently the Astrologers and Geometricians are severally handling the Instruments of their particular Sciences amonst them is a beautiful young man who seems with his Arms extended and other Gestures to express his admiration by this is meant Frederick the second Duke of Mantua who was at Rome when Raphael painted i● there is also Bramante the Popes Arc●itect drawing lines upon the ground with Mathematical Instruments Zoroaster with a Globe in his hand and last of all Raphael himself who appears with a modest look in every Figure there appears so much life and Spirit that makes it incomparable To conclude He was a person of a Noble and generous Soul amiable in his Conversation delighting naturally in doing good well versed in History both sacred and profane of which he made good use in all his Works He died young in the 37th year of his age on a Good-Friday the day he was born on Hic ille est RAPHAEL timuit quo s●spite vinci Rerum summa Parens moriente mori IV. Andrea del Sarto Was one of the most eminent Painters of Florence which he attained to be rather by his earnest application to business and the vivacity of his Spirit then by the Instructions of his Master Having attained to a good sufficiency in the Art he was employed by Pope Leo the 10th to Paint the Triumphs of Julius Caesar in his Palace of Pogio together with two other Painters who not being able to come near his elegancy were forced to desist from the design and to leave the whole glory thereof to him alone He was extraordinary good at Invention as is manifest in those Pieces which contain the story of St. Philips life where he drew arnonst other things certain Gamesters under a Tree who for their swearing and blaspheming being reproved by St. Philip instead of reforming derided his Admonitions when on a sudden two of them are killed by a Thunderclap and the rest terribly frighted and that the dreadful effects of this sin might appear more amazing with wonderful art he drew a woman running out of her House at the noise of the Thunder as if she were frighted out of her wits also there is a Horse broke loose at the same Noise who leaping and bounding in an extraordinary man ner expresses the disorder of the whole very naturally and strong likewise in the story of St. John Baptists life where he represents him preaching in the Wilderness to the Multitude and shows in the burnt hew of his person the austerity of his life and particularly the air of his countenance is full of Spirit and Zeal the Auditors appear with great attention which is variously expressed in several looks and gestures as astonished at his Doctrine and when he comes to bap●ze them 't is ●●atvellous to see what hast some are making to strip themselves others appear already in the Water but all discovering their earnest desire of being cleansed from their sins He is much esteemed by the Italians to this day for his rare Pieces which the Florentines preserve with much care and respect and this they have shown upon all occasions even in the midst of the sury and insolence of the several Factions that took their turnes there for when they carried fire and desolation through the Suburbs of the City they took care to preserve those Pieces of his hand which were in the Monastery of St. Salvi even when they spared not the Churches nor the Cloisters themselves Frederick Duke of Mantoua had a Copy by his hand of Pope ●eo the 10ths Picture done by Raphael which was in the Palace of the Medicis in Florence and this Copy was the more esteemed because it was taken for the Original Julio Romano seeing it in this Princes Closet could not forbear saying That it was one of Raphaels Master-Pieces and this his mistake was not rectified until Vasa●i showed him the name of the Copier on the reverse of the Picture One of his most accomplished and best Fieces is Abraham's offering up Isaac which he did for the King of France but it happened not to come into his hands being otherwise disposed of into the Island of Sicilia hard by Naples During the fiege of Florence some Commanders that were in the city having run away with the publick money order was given to have them exposed by being ●ainted upon the Front of the Palace of the ●odesta and Andrea was defired to do it He excused himself in publick and gave the doing thereof to one of his disciples but notwithstanding privately went every day in at a Hole made in the Wall and came out again by night so that the work was by him so finished that the Persons might be known by every one and seemed to be alive But afterwards the Government ordered them to be wip●d out having received satisfaction for the offence He died of the Plague at Florence aged 42. years V. Leonard de Vinci So many and great were the advantages that this famous person received at his birth both of mind and body that he may be lookt upon as a Miracle of nature for besides au extraordinary beauty of body and so wonderful a strength that hewas able with his hands to snap in sunder an Horse shooe or a Fire-fork he was ●ndued with so sharp a Wit and so subtle and piercing an understanding that he no sooner applihimself to the study of good Letters but he became in a short time very skilful in the Mathematicks Geometry Musick Painting Musick first charmed his soul with its divine Harmony and having naturally a sweet voice he often took delight to joyne it to the sound of his Violin which he touched with that dexterity that made his Musick to ravish the ears of those that heard it but Painting was the Mistress he most adored for which reason his father in his youth put him forth to Andrea del Verochio a famous Florentine Painter who was a●●onished at his bold beginnings Verrochio having begun a piece of the Baptism of St. John ordered Leonard to paint an Angell holding up a Curtain in one part thereof which he performed with such perfection that it far surpassed his Masters work who for vexation to be excelled by his disciple thence forth abandoned the Pencil When he was weary of Painting he used to busy himself in finding out ways how to levell Mountains or make passages through them from one Valley to another as also by Machines of his inventing to raise prodigious Weights draine marshes and such like projections of his working Braine One day his father being returned from his Countrey house was desired by a friend of his to get him a Target painted by his Son whereupon remembring what ●e had read of the Gorgons head and Medusa's shield he got together a Collection of Serpents Lizards and such like Animals from all which put together he made up the figure of an Horrid Monster whose head instead of Hairs