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Scuola of San Rocco.
He did not like the easel paintings of Raphael on account of their hard outlines; those in the Vatican did him better justice.
This idea he may have derived from William Morris Hunt, the Boston portrait-painter.
He considered the action of the Niobe group too strenuous to be represented in marble.
Miss Mary Felton liked the Niobe statues; so Lowell said, “Now come back with me, and I will sit on you.”
Accordingly we all returned to the Niobe hall, where Lowell lectured us on the statues without, however, entirely convincing Miss Felton.
Then we went to the hall in the Uffizi Palace, which is called the Tribune. Mrs. Lowell had never been in the Tribune, where the Venus dea Medici is enshrined; so her husband opened the door wide and said, “Now go in” --as if he were opening the gates of Paradise.
At Bologna he wished to make an excursion into the mountains, but the veturino charged about twice the usual price, and though the man afterwards reduced his demand to a reasonable figure Lowell would not go with him at all, and told him that such practices made Americans dislike the Italian people.
It is to be feared that a strange Italian might fare just as badly in America.
Readers of Lowell's “Fireside travels” will
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