the gate of San Gallo, for Ludovico Capponi, with a figure of Our Lady, which has been very highly extolled.[1]
The death of Raphael then took place, when Giulio Romano and Giovan Francesco, who had been his disciples, remained for a long time together, and together completed the works which were left unfinished by Raphael; more particularly such as he had commenced in the Vigna of the Pope,[2] with those in the great hall of the Palace, wherein are depicted by these two masters events from the history of Constantine, with figures of great beauty, executed with infinite, skill and in an excellent manner: it is true, that the invention and sketches of these stories proceeded in part from the hand of Raphael.[3]
While these works were in course of execution, the distinguished painter, Perino del Vaga,[4] took the sister of Giovan Francesco to wife, for which cause these two last-named artists subsequently executed many works in company, but Giulio and Giovan Francesco also continued to labour together; and, among other works, they jointly executed a picture in two parts, representing the Assumption of Our Lady, which was sent to Monteluci, near Perugia:[5] other pictures and works of various kinds by the same artists were in like manner despatched to other places.
Having at a later period received a commission from Pope Clement VII., to paint a picture similar to that of Raphael, which is in San Pietro-a-Montorio,[6] and which His Holiness
- ↑ This work is no longer to be seen.
- ↑ Very probably the pictures in the chapel of the small hunting palace at Magliano. See Passavant, Rafael von Urbino. See also Hahn, in the Blatt fur literarische Unterhaltungen for 1841, by whom these works are described in detail.
- ↑ The picture painted by Penni represents Constantine receiving the rite of Baptism from Pope Sylvester.—Masselli.
- ↑ Pietro Bonaccorsi of Florence, called Perino del Vaga, whose life follows.
- ↑ The picture of Monteluci is now in the Gallery of the Vatican, and is in good preservation. The drawing for this work had been prepared by Raphael himself, but this was not closely followed by his disciples. The upper part of the picture is by Giulio; the lower part by Giovanni Francesco. See Platner and Bunsen, Beschreihung der Stadt Rom. See also Gaye, in the Kunstblatt for 1836, No. 34.
- ↑ The Transfiguration, that is to say, which was in the church of San Pietro-in-Montorio, in Vasari’s time, and remained there until the close of the last century.
