The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 365
, appears to havegiven greater encouragement to the arts than any of hispredecessors. He built the magnificent palace of theEscurial, and very liberally recompensed the .cists em-ployed upon it. But as this prince had not the powerto alter the manners of his subjects, nor the constitutionof the… … PubEthd PORTRAIT OF LEO THE TENTH. RAPHAEL. Little doubt can be entertained of the accurateresemblance of the portrait. All those which were exe-cuted by Raphael present a character of truth and sim-plicity, which nature only could inspire; it is butreasonable to suppose, that he took particular…
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