Full text: Bacciotti, Emilio: Bacciotti's Handbook of Florence and its environs, or the stranger conducted through its principal monuments, studios, churches, palaces, galleries, streets and shops

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1128. 
Van Dyck 
Raphael 
1129. 
1130. Fra Bartolommeo 
Raphael 
1131. 
1132. 
Correggio 
were, on wood, prove this to be 
the celebrated San Giovanni, which 
Raphael painted for Cardinal Co¬ 
lonna, and which he gave to his 
physician Messer lacopo, who had 
cured him of a dangerous illness. 
It has been in the gallery of 
the Medicis since 1589). 
Charles V, on horseback, armed, 
(over his head an eagle holds a 
crown of laurel). 
Virgin of the Goldfinch (a Holy 
family, commonly called la Ma¬ 
donna del Cardellino, from the 
goldfinch S. John holds in his hand. 
Beautiful in composition, sweet in 
expression and truly divine in con¬ 
ception and execution. This picture 
was painted in Florence by Ra¬ 
phael for his friend Lorenzo Nasi, 
whose house being destroyed by the 
landslip of the Monte San Giorgio 
(Via dei Bardi) it was buried in 
the ruins, but was recovered and 
carefully joined, so that the mending 
is scarcely visible). 
Job (noble figure, holds a scroll 
with « Ipse erit Salvator meus » 
upon). 
Pope Julius II (a very fine head; 
the picture most carefully painted, 
and the colouring rich and deep; it 
is a repetition of that in the Pitti 
Gallery ; but in Florence no one 
doubts that both are originals). 
Head of S. John, on a dish.
	        
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