Chap. VIII. BERNARDINO PINTURICCHIO 287 ricchio. 1 The character of Bei’nardino allows us to think that he would be willing to take advantage of the precocious talents of such a youth as Raphael, if only in giving him rough sketches from which to make more finish ed drawings; and the resemblance of style between those of young Sanzio now at Venice and others which repeat scenes depicted in the Piccolomini library strengthens the belief that he did so. Of the latter, one reproducing the departure of iEneas Sylvius with Cardinal Capranica is in the collection of the Uffizi, pencilled on whitish grey paper, and outlined with pen, shadowed with touches of bister, and lighted up with white. The squares by which the transfer of the composition to cartoon was made, still chequer the surface. There is little or no dif ference between this magnificent piece and the fresco, except perhaps in the landscape. Another, of similar exe cution, in four parts pasted together and somewhat rubbed, belongs to Signor Baldeschi at Sienna, and differs from the wallpainting in more than one particular. The attitude of iEneas between the Emperor and Infanta is changed in the latter, and the figures of the middle distance on a background of hills is replaced by a view of the Ca- mollia Gate at Sienna. In the sky to the left are the words “questa e la quinta” .... to which earlier writers add . . “No. V. . . afae”; 2 but it is supposed that the lines are more modern than the drawing. A third at Chats- worth represents iEneas before Eugenius the Fourth. 3 Were Raphael’s name to be withdrawn from these sheets, it would be necessary to reconstruct a catalogue of his designs. At Venice there are figures which seem counter parts of those we have described, especially as regards feeling. The same hand traced them all. One point alone 1 His description of them shows ii carelessness not pardonable even when one considers that he disliked the works of Pinturiechio. He speaks of the birth of iEneas Pic- eolomini as one of the subjects on the library walls which is quite imaginary (Vas. V. 265). * Com. Vas. 296. 3 A curious mischance prevented the authors from seeing this draw ing at Chatsworth; but it isdescrib- ed by Geheimerrath D r Waagen in Treasures. III. 454.
