2-756-598 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Italian Renaissance ceiling and wall painting, (1898). 'Fig 1: Ceiling-painting in the Palazzo Doria at Genoa. Fig 2: Pilaster-decoration from the Loggie of the Vatican at Rome. Figs 3 and 4: Panels in a window-niche in the Vatican Museum, ibid...Ornamental wall-and ceiling painting of High-Renaissance is represented in its highest beauty and dignity by the works of Raffaelle and his school, especially in the Loggie of the Vatican. Although a great part of those paintings are not from his own hand, yet they were carried out by his pupils after the master's designs, and in his spirit...To a pupil of Raffaelle also, the paintings in the Palazzo Doria at Genoa are to be ascribed'. Plate 53 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]