The old masters and their pictures, for the use of schools and learners in art; (1905)
Tytler, Sarah, 1827-1914 · Boston Little, Brown, and company · leaf 180
gaze up in adoration. In execution,as in design, this is probably the most perfect picturein the world. It is painted throughout by Raphaelsown hand ; and as no sketch or study of any part ofit was ever known to exist, and as the executionmust have been, from the thinness and delicacy of… … Detail ok the Madonna of the House ok Alha Raphael Our Lady of the Goldfinch 149 the Elector of Saxony, Augustus III., purchased tliispicture from the monks of the convent for the sumof sixty thousand florins (about ^^6000), and it nowforms the chief boast and ornament of the DresdenGallery. * The…
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