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Title: The early work of Raphael
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ady, Julia Mary Cartwright, d. 1924
Subjects: Raphael, 1483-1520
Publisher: London : Seeley and Co., Ltd. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ooking holiday caravelsand galleons of the artists pictures. Anon, it is a bit of old Rome, the Arch of Titus, the Forum, theTemple of Castor and Pollux, which he has sketched. It is worthnoting that in these drawings of architectural subjects he proceeds onquite another principle than in his pictures. The T-square and theplumb-line are forgotten, and the draughtsman indicates the massivearchitecture with a real feeling for the beauty of broken stone andthe vibration of the atmosphere. Every now and again we come acrossa figure-study ; and if many of these, more particularly the larger andmore elaborate ones, betray by their uncouthness that mollo evidentesuo mancamento of which Baldinucci speaks, yet there are others inwhich the artist has jotted down his little figures with a grace andease which we would never have expected of him, and which makesus forswear all the evil we had said or thought about him in this branchof his art. Among such studies we may mention with especial praise
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ft: -<j =q -•SiS ^ ■^ CLAUDE LORRAIN 77 the sketch for The Embarkation of S. Ursula, remarkable both for thegraceful grouping and delicate indication of the figures. The skill and the delicacy which Claude manifests in his drawingsreasserts itself even more clearly in his etchings. These form asufficiently important part of the artists work to claim a chapter tothemselves. CHAPTER VIII CLAUDE AS AN ETCHER There are forty-four etchings by Claude extant. It is probablethat this number represents all or nearly all his work in this line. TheAbbe de Marolles in the catalogue, published in 1666, of his greatcollection of prints gives under Claudes name the entry, II y a de celui-ci 46 pieces. Proofs of Claudes etchings are extremely rare. A com-plete collection is an all but unattainable ideal. Fortunately the pub-lication within recent years of a series of reproductions of Claudesetchings allows all lovers of the art to have access to what would other-wise have remained the treasure

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