Walks in RomeHare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert)
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Walks in Rome
Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert)
Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel
100. Two male portraits: _Vandyke_.
104. Adoration of the Shepherds: _Mazzolino_.
106. Two Portraits: _Vandyke_.
116. St. Sebastian: _Guido Reni_.
117. Cleopatra and Augustus: _Guercino_.
119. St. Sebastian: _Lud. Caracci_.
128. Gipsy telling a fortune: _Caravaggio_.
132. Portrait: _Giovanni Bellini_.
134. Portrait of Michael Angelo: _M. Venusti?_
136. Petrarch: _Gio. Bellini?_
142. Nativity of the Virgin: _Albani_.
143. Sta. Petronilla: _Guercino_. An enormous picture, brought hither
from St. Peter's, where it has been replaced by a mosaic copy. The
composition is divided into two parts. The lower represents the
burial of Sta. Petronilla, the upper the ascension of her spirit.
"The Apostle Peter had a daughter, born in lawful wedlock, who
accompanied him in his journey from the East. Petronilla was wonderfully
fair; and Valerius Flaccus, a young and noble Roman, who was a heathen,
became enamoured of her beauty, and sought her for his wife; and he,
being very powerful, she feared to refuse him; she therefore desired him
to return in three days, and promised that he should then carry her
home. But she prayed earnestly to be delivered from this peril; and when
Flaccus returned in three days, with great pomp, to celebrate the
marriage, he found her dead. The company of nobles who attended him,
carried her to the grave, in which they laid her, crowned with roses;
and Flaccus lamented greatly."--_Mrs. Jameson, from the Perfetto
Legendario._
199. Death and Assumption of the Virgin: _Cola della Matrice_.
"Here the death of the Virgin is treated at once in a mystical and
dramatic style. Enveloped in a dark blue mantle, spangled with golden
stars, she lies extended on a couch; St. Peter, in a splendid scarlet
cope as bishop, reads the service; St. John, holding the palm, weeps
bitterly. In front, and kneeling before the couch or bier, appear the
three great Dominican saints as witnesses of the religious mystery; in
the centre St. Dominic; on the left, St. Catherine of Siena; and on the
right, St. Thomas Aquinas. In a compartment above is the
Assumption."--_Jameson's Legends of the Madonna_, p. 315.
123. Virgin and Angels: _Paul Veronese_.
124. Rape of Europa: _Paul Veronese_.
At the head of the Capitol steps, to the right of the terrace, is the
entrance to the _Palazzo Caffarelli_, the residence of the Prussian
minister. It has a small but beautiful garden, and the view from the
windows is magnificent.
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