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 396 Painting in Italy. Besides these vast mural paintings, his architectural works — already alluded to — and the diligent share he took in the researches then going on amongst the ruins of ancient Rome, Raphael found time to produce a magnificent series of easel pictures, altar-pieces, and por- traits (including several of himself), of which we can only name the most important, taking first the Holy Families and Madonnas, of which there are no less than fifty, and into which Raphael threw all the religious fervour for which he was distinguished ; viz. — The Virgin with the Diadem. In the Bridgwater Gallery {re- plica in the Louvre). The Virgin and Child. (La In the Louvre. Silence.) Madonna di Foligno. In the Vatican. The Virgin with the Fish. In the Madrid Museum. The Holy Family of Naples. In the Naples Gallery. Madonna with the Palm-tree. In the Bridgwater Gallery. Madonna of the Bridgwater In the Bridgwater Gallery. Gallery. Madonna della Sedia. In the Pitti Palace, Florence. The Holy Family (La Perla). In the Madrid Museum. The Garvagh Madonna. In the National Gallery. Madonna di San Sisto. In the Dresden Gallery. The last named is now the greatest treasure of the Dresden Gallery, and is evidently entirely from the master's own hand. It is, perhaps, the most famous painting in the world — of all ages and of all countries. Of his altar- pieces the most famous are Christ bearing His Cross, — (known as-Lo Spasimo di Cecilia) having once belonged to the Church of S. Maria del Spasimo, at Palermo, — now at Madrid, which is in every respect a masterpiece ; and the Transfiguration, his last and best oil painting, which