The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 4 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 4Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 4 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 4
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848
[Footnote 579: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) went to France in 1516 by
invitation of Francis I., and died there, at the Château de Cloux, near
Amboise, on the 2nd of May 1519.--T.]
[Footnote 580: Cosmo I. de' Medici, the Great, first Grand-duke of
Tuscany (1519-1574). Michael Angelo was a native of Caprese, near
Florence, and is buried in the Santa Croce in the Tuscan capital.--T.]
[Footnote 581: Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velasquez (1599-1660) visited
Italy in 1629 and again in 1649.--T.]
[Footnote 582: Bartolomé Estéban Murillo (1617-1683), Velasquez'
pupil.--T.]
[Footnote 583: Giulio di Pietro di Filippo de' Giannuzzi (1492-1546),
known as Giulio Romano, a painter and architect, one of Raphael's
principal pupils.--T.]
[Footnote 584: This school was founded by Friedrich Johann Overbeck
(1789-1869), who visited Rome in 1810 and there formed a Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood, became converted to Catholicism, in 1813, and devoted
himself to painting, and encouraging painting, after the method of
Perugino. The leading members of this New-old Raphaelite or Nazarene
School were Philipp Veit (1793-1877), Wilhelm Friedrich von Schadow
(1789-1862), Karl Eggers (1787-1863), Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
(1794-1872), Joseph Führich (1800-1876), Eduard Steinle (1810-1886)
and Peter Cornelius (1783-1867), perhaps the most noteworthy of this
company of remarkable artists (_cf._ RICHARD MUTHER, _History of Modern
Painting_, Vol. I. chap. VI.: _The Nazarenes_).--T.]
[Footnote 585: Pietro Vannucci (1446-1524), known as Perugino, from
Perugia, his birth-place, a famous painter of the Umbrian School and
the master of Raphael.--T.]
[Footnote 586: St. Luke the Evangelist is the patron saint of artists.
The Church honours him on the 18th of October.--T.]
[Footnote 587: Jean Victor Schnetz (1787-1870), a native of Paris.
The reference is to his best-known picture, the _Vow to the Madonna._
Schnetz became Director of the French School in Rome in 1840.--T.]
[Footnote 588: Louis Leopold Robert (1794-1835), a well-known French
painter of Neapolitan landscapes. After 1830, he was sent for to
Florence to give lessons to the Princess Charlotte Bonaparte, daughter
of King Joseph, and wife, soon to become widow, of her cousin, Charles
Napoleon Louis, second son of the ex-King of Holland. He became
violently enamoured of her, and his hopeless passion drove him to
commit suicide, at Venice, on the 20th of March 1835.--B.]
[Footnote 589: Émile Jean Horace Vernet (1789-1863), Director of
the French School in Rome from 1827 to 1839. He painted mostly
battle-pictures up to 1836; after that year, his works represented
mainly scenes of Arab life.--T.]
[Footnote 590: Jacques Édouard Quecq (1796-1873). His _Death of
Vitellius_ was exhibited in Rome in 1830.--T.]
[Footnote 591: Gianmaria de' Medici, or del Monte, or Giocchi, Pope
Julius III. (1487-1555). Pope in 1550.--T.]
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