History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1906)
Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 372
progress is lost to our ken ; we find him at theheight of his powers in Rome, where he worked for Pope Sixtus IV., and notmerely as a visitor, like many of the Florentine painters, but for several years.When that pope founded the Accademia di San Luca his name as MelotinsPictor Papalis was one of… … Fig. 280. dinal Pictro Riario, nephew to Sixtus IV. The choir of the church was alteredin 171 1, and only fragments of this fresco now survive. The figure of Christfloating upwards on clouds—now on the staircase at the Ouirinal—is SO perfectlyforeshortened, says Vasari, that lie seems to be…
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