A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools: Including by Special Permission Notes Collected from the Works of John Ruskin
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A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools: Including by Special Permission Notes Collected from the Works of John Ruskin
National Gallery (Great Britain); Painting -- England -- London -- Catalogs
166. A CAPUCHIN FRIAR.
_Rembrandt_ (Dutch: 1606-1669). _See_ 45.
Michel ascribes this portrait to the year of Rembrandt's tribulations.
"At this period, when his emotions were so deeply stirred by the
vision of a compassionate Saviour, he felt a kindred attraction for
those mystic souls who sought in solitude and prayer a closer communion
with the Christ to whom he felt himself drawn by his own sorrows. The
'Capuchin' in the National Gallery has suffered from time, but the
devout gravity of the face is finely expressed" (_Rembrandt: his Life,
his Work, and his Time_, ii. 126).
167. THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI.
_Peruzzi_ (Sienese: 1481-1537). _See_ 218.
This drawing--of the same composition as we see in the picture
No. 218--was made at Bologna in 1521 for Count Giovanni Battista
Bentivogli. The drawing was presented to the National Gallery by Lord
Vernon, together with a print from the plate engraved from it by
Agostino Carracci.
168. ST. CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA.
_Raphael_ (Urbino: 1483-1520). _See_ 1171.
This is a picture of Raphael's second period--"painted about
the year 1507, to judge from its close resemblance in style
to the celebrated picture of the Entombment in the Borghese
(Rome), which is known to have been executed at that time."
There are several studies for the picture in the University
Galleries at Oxford, and another in the Chatsworth collection.
The finished cartoon in black and white chalk, pricked for
transfer to the panel, is exhibited in the Louvre.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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