Identifier: artofpittipalace1903addi (find matches)
Title: The art of the Pitti Palace : with a short history of the building of the palace, and its owners, and an appreciation of its treasures
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs, 1866-
Subjects: Palazzo Pitti Painting
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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neither cloister breeding nor boudoir breeding, and
is very unfit to paint either in missals or in annuals;
but he has an open-sky and wide-world breeding in
him, that we may not be offended with, fit alike for
a king's court, a knight's camp, and a peasant's
cottage."
The celebrated portrait of Rubens and his brother,
together with the two philosophers, Lipsius and
Grotius, is next to the painting just described. It
is as fine as some of Titian's portraits, and is one
of the best things ever done by Rubens.
In a room with marble columns and a delightful
outlook upon a fortified town, three persons are
seated around a table, while one, the painter him-
self, stands modestly at one side. He has a red
beard and moustache; this is as satisfactory a por-
trait of himself as any that Rubens has executed.
Phillip Rubens, the brother of the artist, sits next
him, at the left of the picture, holding a pen. He
is a handsome fellow, younger than his celebrated
brother, but much like him. His hair is darker and
thicker. He wears a full rufif. This Phillip Rubens
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FOUR PHILOSOPHERS
By Rubens; in the Hall of Mars

The Hall of Mars 107

was quite a celebrated philologist. He was taken
to Rome by Peter Paul, and there became librarian
to Cardinal Colonna. He was made Secretary of
the Senate on his return to Antwerp in 1609.
On the right occupying the centre of the com-
position, is Lipsius, his finger resting upon an open
book. Justus Lipsius (1547—1606) was a distin-
guished humanist, born in Brabant. Though edu-
cated by the Jesuits, he early took the Protestant
side, but later returned to the Church. At Leyden
he taught for eleven years, and during this time
he prepared his editions of Seneca and Tacitus.
His classical knowledge and his respect for antiquity
gave him a great reputation as a scholar, and his
political writings were used as a justification of
persecution.
Grotius is in profile. He was born in Delft, in
1583, and was a great jurist, diplomat, and ecclesi-
astical debater. As a youth, his precocious genius
was famous. At nine, he made good Latin

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