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SALA DI SATURNO. 
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which was intended for the SS. Annunziata of Florence. In His 
eft hand the Saviour holds the sceptre, with the globe sur- 
mnounted by the cross, and He raises His right to bless. His 
countenance is mild and noble, His attitude dignified, and the 
lowing lines of His white drapery add to the majesty of His 
ippearance. With the exception of a defect in the right arm, 
he drawing is very fine. The arm of St. Matthew is boldly fore¬ 
hortened ; St. John is beside him ; St. Luke and St. Mark are 
on the other side ; all four are powerful figures ; the draperies are 
grandly composed, and we may perceive in them the example 
Raffaelle followed in his later works. The two little angels 
pelow, who support a picture of the world on which rests the 
acramental cup, are most lovely ; the colour is sober, but fine. 
his picture was painted in 1515, soon after Fra Bartolommeo 
ad lost his best beloved friend, Mariotto Albertinelli. 
The paintings of Giorgione are so rare, and can so seldom 
e authenticated, that the pictures bearing his name in this 
pom aré very doubtful. Near the Fra Bartolommeo is Moses 
iken from the Nile, presented to Pharaoh’s daughter, attributed 
» Giorgione; it is fine in colour, and has an exceedingly lovely 
indscape background. The figures are drawn with spirit and 
race, and the picture is probably a sketch for some larger work, 
may have formed part of a bridal chest. 
A head of Francesco della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, husband 
the beautiful Eleanora Gonzaga, and father of Vittoria della 
overe, is by Federigo Baroccio. 
An Annunciation, by Andrea del Sarto, the third in this 
illery, was painted for Giuliano della Scala, to be placed in a 
napel of the SS. Annunziata. 
The Deposition from the Cross, by Pietro Perugino, a 
oble yet simple composition, is in the tender, sweet, and 
irnest manner of the Umbrian School, with careful and some- 
hat academical treatment. It was in this picture that Perugino, 
1495, presented an example of landscape painting to the 
See Crowe and Cavalcaselle, vol. iii. p. 466. 
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