The golden days of the renaissance in Rome, from the pontificate of Julius II to that of Paul III (1906)
Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 218
designs of Michelangelo. SuchSvas the dinner service descril)ed in a despatch (July^, 1537)of Girolamo Staccoli to the duke of Urbino, whose interestshe re])resented in Rome. The original sketch of the centralpiece, showing an oval vase with masks and festoons roundthe body, and a figure in full… … THE FALL OF PHAETHON INTO THE RIVER ERIDANUS From a cartoon by Michelangelo, engraved by Beatrizet MICHELANGELO 177 peared in the crucible of an eighteenth century goldsmith.If it still exists, we ought to find traces of it in the guar-daroba of the ex-grand dukes of Tuscany, on account ofthe…