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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26548	Painting illustrated in three diallogues containing some choice observations upon the art together with the lives of the most eminent painters from Cimabue to the time of Raphael and Michael Angelo : with an explanation of the difficult terms.	Aglionby, William, d. 1705.	1686 (1686)	Wing A765; ESTC R27095	126,132	426

at the Air of the Figures the Beauty of the Drapery and above all a certain Sweetness that is spread all through the Work There being about this time many Artists of all kinds Employed at Rome by Pope Giulio the Second Bramanto of Vrbino amongst the rest being there Writ to Raphael to whom he was something a Kin to come to Rome for that he had spoke to the Pope of him At his arrival being very well received by the Pope he found him busied in Embellishing his Palace and particularly in Painting his best Rooms in Fresco by the Hands of the most famous Masters of that Time there was one Room quite finished by Pietro della Francesca Luca di Cortona had very much forwarded a Facciata or Frontice-piece of another And Don Pietro della Gasta Abbot of Saint Clement of Arezzo had begun another Story Likewise Bramantino of Milan had made some Figures which being done after the Life were extreamly Valued Raphael therefore took to himself the Chamber of the Segnatura and there begun a Story of the Divines agreeing Philosophy and Astrologie with Divinity and in it are drawn all the Antient Wise Men and Philosophers disputing in different Manners By themselves there are some Astrologers who have made Figures upon Tables and send them to the four Evangelists by certain Angels But amongst the rest is the Figure of Diogenes lying all along upon the Stairs with his Dish in his Hand which is a very Contemplative figure and much to be Commended as well as the figures of the Astrologers whose Aptitude in Working with their Compasses upon Tables is admirable There is among other Figures one of a Young Man who opening his Arms and bending his Head on one side seems to be in the act of admiring it is the Picture of Frederick the Second Duke of Mantoua who was then in Raphael's own Picture is also there next to Zoroaster's who holds a Caelestial Globe in his Hand and the Mathematician who seems so attentive with his Compasses is the Picture of Bramante and so like him that he seems alive He adorned his Work with a most delicate Prospective and such Variety of fine Figures of so delicate a Manner that Pope Julio caused all that had been done by other Masters both Old and Modern to be quite Demolished to make room for more of his But Raphael spared some of the Work of Giovan Antonio Sodoma of Vercelli and made use of the Compartiments and Grotesks of it And in the four Rounds he made four Figures of some Signification to the Stories under them and turned each of them to its proper Story In the first is a Woman which is made to represent Knowledg and on each Hand a Goddess Cybele she sits in a Chair and is Represented with many Breasts with which the Antients painted their Diana Polimasta Her Clothes are of four Colours to Represent the four Elements from her Head to her Waste is the Fire-Colour and from her Waste downwards the three others the Water being the last and there are by her some young Children very finely done In another Round towards the Window which looks upon Belvedere is Represented Poesie in the person of Polyhimnia Crowned with Laurel and with an Air more than Mortal She directs her Looks to Heaven having two Youths by her who by their Vivacity seem ready to receive her Commands underneath this was the Story of Parnassus In the third Round which is over the Story where the Doctors of the Church are ordering the Mass there is represented Divinity with Books and other Ornaments about her and likewise two Boys In the fourth Round is Justice with her Ballances and a Sword with two Boys as all the others He made likewise in the four Corners of the Vault or Ceiling four Stories but of lesser Figures yet extreamly well Designed and delicately Coloured and they are Adam's Eating the forbidden Fruit which looks towards the Story of Divinity underneath near that of Astrologie there is that Art which places the fixed Stars and Planets all in their proper Situation Over the Picture of Poesie there is the Story of Marsias who is tied to a Tree and Flead by Apollo and over the History of the giving the Civil and Canonical Laws there is the Story of Solomon's Judgment when he Ordered the Child to be cut in two Having finished the Vault or Ceiling we must now say what were the Stories painted underneath In that part which looks towards Belvedere he drew the Mount Parnassus with the Fountain Helicon and upon the Mountain made a Wood of Laurels so Green and Lively that the very trembling of the Leaves by the gentle breath of Air stirring about them is almost perceptible and in the Air there flie about an infinite number of Cupids who gather Branches of Laurel and having formed them into Garlands and Wreaths scatter them all about the Hill which is filled with Poets in different postures some Sitting some Standing some Writing some Singing and others Talking together by pairs or more as the Painter thought fit to sort them But the Figures are all so Lively and their Actions so proper and Natural that one would really think the Workman Inspired with some of that Divinity which the Poets lay claim too These Figures were all done after some Antient Statues or Models and the Modern Poets who are there Represented and were then Alive and are all done after the Life There on one Side you see Ovid Virgil Emius Tibullus Catullus Propertius and Homer by himself Singing of Verses and having one at his Feet who Writes them down Then in a Gruppo by themselves are Apollo and the Nine Muses with such Beauty in the Air of their Heads that one may easily know them to be the Divinities of Verse On the other Side is the Learned Sappio the most Divine Dante Gentle Pearch and Amarous Boccaccio with a great many more of the Moderns the whole Work being extreamly well finished On another Wall in the same Room he drew our Saviour and the Virgin Mary Saint John Baptist the Apostles the Evangelists and Martyrs all upon Clouds in the Air and above over them God the Father who sends the Holy Ghost over a great number of Saints of all sorts There are likewise the four Doctors of the Church with Domenick Francis Thomas Aquinas Bonaventure Scotus Nicolas di Lira Savanarola and a great many Divines drawn many after the Life In the Air are four Boys who hold the four Evangelists The Excellency of this Picture is great for as the Figures are all Sitting and in the Air the Shortnings are very Artificial so as they slide away from the Eye by degrees just as if they were of true Relievo Their Drapery likewise is very Curious both in the Foldings and Liveliness of Colours The Air of our Saviour's Head is admirable having in it all that Mildness and Pity which was proper to the Divinity made Man And indeed it was Raphael's