A sketch of one of the most capital pictures in Venice, and preserved there in a church. It represents our blessed Lady with St. Peter and St. Francis, and a Venetian General of the Capello’s family come back victorious from a battle against the Turks, who offers the standard and the trophies of his victory to the altar of our Lady. The whole Capello family is exhibited in this picture. A celebrated work, by Titiano.
A landscape with figures. It represents part of the country near Bologna, by Domenichino.
A woman representing Simplicity, with a dove in her hand. A half length as big as the life, by Francesco Furino.
The good Samaritan. The figures are two feet high. A valuable picture, by Sisto Badalocchi.
Our Lady with her babe, about two feet high, painted much after Correggio’s manner, by Sebastian Ricci.
The head of a youth, a little smaller than the life, by Raphael.
Two small pictures, exhibiting two different martyrdoms of two saints, by Giacomo del Po.
A small sketch, by Ciro Ferri, a disciple of Pietro da Cortona.
A picture exhibiting our Saviour’s nativity. The devotion and maternal affection of our blessed Lady looking on her babe, is prodigiously well expressed. St. Joseph stands admiring the compunction of two shepherds contrasted by another that takes care of the ass. Of two other shepherds, placed at some distance, one holds a light in his hand and shows the other the manger, expressing a pious wonder. Further off there is a most beautiful angel in the clouds proclaiming the birth of our Saviour to the other shepherds. No picture ever surpassed this most elaborate performance of Titiano.
It was one of King Charles the First’s collection; and there are two prints of it, an ancient one in wood, the other in copper-plate.