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The art of the Vatican; being a brief history of the palace, and an account of the principal art treasures within its walls (1903)

Potter, Mary Knight, d. 1915 · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 256

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s ofmuch the same order as the St. Stephen and Conver-sion of St. Paul. Owing to the large part entrustedto his pupils, it is a comparative failure. The tapes-try is injured. Paul is behind a grating similar tothat of the Deliverance in the chamber of Helio-dorus. At the corner of the foreground… … Kapbacle ITapcatrics 335 The borders of all these tapestries are sumptuousbeyond telling in iina|^cry, in dramatic interest, indecorative efTcct. Many of them, so fine are thegroupings and so vivid the scenes they depict, havebeen assigned to Raphaels own hand. He was oneof the first artists to…

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