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He made a design for the Palace of the Louvre, which was sohighly approved by Louis XIV. That he sent him his picture richly set injewels. Cortona was a laborious artist, and though tormented with thegout, and in affluent circumstances, he continued to paint till hisdeath, in 1699. "KNOW THYSELF. " Mario Ballassi, a Florentine painter born in 1604, studied successivelyunder Ligozzi, Roselli, and Passignano; he assisted the latter in theworks he executed at Rome for Pope Urban XIII. His chief ta...lent lay incopying the works of the great masters, which he did to admiration. DonTaddeo Barberini employed him to copy the Transfiguration of Raffaelle, for the Church of the Conception, in which he imitated the touch andexpression of the original in so excellent a manner as to excite thesurprise of the best judges at Rome. At the recommendation of theCardinal Piccolomini, he was introduced to the Emperor Ferdinand III. , who received him in an honorable manner. Elated with his success, hevainly imagined that if he could imitate the old masters, he could alsoequal them in an original style of his own.
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