The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 311
chools. The accessaries, the landscapes,and the buildings, are rendered with fidelity and care. It is not known why Raphael painted the choir ofangels of a blue tint, which partakes of that of theclouds; the effect of which is by no means happy. This picture is one of the objects of art… … THE BIRTH OF MARY DE MEDICIS. RUBENS. Lucina, the goddess who presides over child-birth,presents to the city of Florence, Mary de Medicis, whois just born. The head of the young princess is surround-ed by an emblem of her future grandeur. Her tutelarygenius holds a cornucopia, from which issue the…
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