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6. A Day in the Roman Forum.

7. A Day with the Boy Raphael.

8. The Legend of the _Madonna della Sedia_.

9. Raphael and His Friends.

10. Raphael the Student.

[Illustration: COURT IN THE ALCAZAR.]

MURILLO AND SPANISH ART

"Velazquez is in art an eagle; Murillo is an angel. One admires
Velazquez and adores Murillo. By his canvasses we know him as if
he had lived among us. He was handsome, good and virtuous. Envy
knew not where to attack him; around his crown of glory he bore
a halo of love. He was born to paint the sky."
--DE AMICIS.

"Murillo could paint the sacred fervor of the devotee, or the
ecstasy of the religious enthusiast, as well as the raggedness
of the mendicant, or the abject suffering of Job."
--CHARLES BLANC.

[Illustration: MURILLO.]

MURILLO AND SPANISH ART.

Spain was not blessed as Italy was with one generation after another
of artists so great that all the world knows them even at this distant
day. Spain has only two unquestionably great painters that stand out
as world-artists. They are Velazquez and Murillo. The former painted
with unrivalled skill the world of noblemen among whom he lived. The
other, not surrounded by courtiers, looked into his own pure,
religious soul, and into the sky above, and gave us visions of
heaven--its saints and its angels.

It is impossible to study either of these men apart from the other, or
apart from the art records of Spain. To understand either, we must
know the land, teeming with rich and unique cities, we must have
glimpses of its history, and we must know something of the rules laid
down by the church to guide the painter in his work.

The climate of Spain, except in the south, is rigorous. Elevated
plains, rounded by snow-capped mountains, and swept during a large
part of the year by chilling winds, are not adapted to inspire men to
produce great works of art. On such a plain Madrid is situated, and
chilly indeed are its nature pictures, even though they are
over-arched by the bluest of skies and the most transparent of
atmospheres! In Andalusia, however, things were different. Here were
the olive, the orange, and the cypress, and here a sunny climate
encouraged the houseless beggar no less than the aspiring artist.

[Illustration: Velasquez de Silva.]

In speaking of Spain as a home of painting, we must not forget,
either, how very devoted the people were to