3-043-722 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sculptures around the base of the Prince Consort Memorial: East Front - Italian Painters.., 1872. The Albert Memorial in London. 'Illustrations of the lifesized figures sculptured in relief on the four sides of the podium, which form an historical series of portraits of the most eminent artists in all ages of the world...the painters, by Mr. H. H. Armstead, are ranged on the east side...the several nations or schools are kept separate. The Italian school is shown in the central portion. Here is Raphael seated in the midst, with Michael Angelo on his right hand and Leonardo da Vinci on his left. Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Ghirlandajo, Giotto, Orcagna, and Cimabue, the elder Italian painters, are portrayed in chronological succession on the one side; Bellini, Titian, Andrea Mantegna, Paul Veronese, Tintoretto, Correggio, Annibale and Luigi Caracci, are on the other side. The noble figure of Titian, in his long furred robe and Venetian cap, with a palette in his hand, and that of Paul Veronese caressing his favourite greyhound, are prominent among the artists in the right-hand half. The other portions are devoted to famous painters of the German, English, Spanish, and French schools'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.