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 595
thesecond hall is considered Giulio Romanos finest work; it represents the story 500 HISTORY OF PAINTING. ! of Cupid and Psyche. Having painted the same subject from Raphaels designsin the Villa Farnesina, he now desired to show his own conception of the poem.Many of the pictures are cruder and… … Fig. 384. colouring unusually fresh and clear for Romano. The larger subjects occupythe walls, and are sensual and coarse in the figure drawing, but rich in varietyof detail and accessories (Fig. 382). The third hall, which is also decorated fromdesigns by Romano, is of no great interest ; it is in…
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