timid pencil, made use of a darker tint than his master was accustomed to do. I have met with an experienced person, who declared that he could recognize the character of Giulio in the dark parts of the flesh tints, and in the middle dark tints, not of a leaden color as Raffaello used, nor so well harmonized; in the greater quantity of light, and in the eyes designed more roundly, which Raffaello painted somewhat long, after the manner of Pietro Perugino."
PORTRAITS OF POPE JULIUS II.
There are no less than eight portraits of Julius
II. attributed to Raffaelle. 1. The original, by
Raffaelle's own hand, is in the Palazzo Pitti at Florence,
the best of all; 2. a scarcely inferior one in
the Tribune of the Florentine Gallery; 3. one in
the English National Gallery, from the Falconieri
Palace at Rome; 4. a very fine one, formerly in the
Orleans Gallery; 5. an inferior one in the Corsini
Palace at Rome; 6. a very fine one in the Borghese
Gallery at Rome; 7. one at Berlin, from the Giustinian
Gallery; 8. one in the possession of Count
Torlonia at Rome. Most of these are doubtless copies
by Raffaelle's scholars, some of them finished by
himself. The original cartoon is preserved in the
Corsini Palace at Florence.
MANNERS OF RAFFAELLE.
Raffaelle had three manners; first, that of his instructor,
Pietro Perugino, hence many exquisite pic-