Excerpt from Lanzis History of Painting in Upper and Lower Italy, Vol. 1 of 2The original work having issued from the press toward the close of the last century, the reader will, of course, readily imagine that many of the paintings here mentioned are no longer to be met with in the places to which the work refers them. - some having been removed from the churches for which they were originally executed, in order to protect them from the efif'ects of damp, others having been sold, and transferred to the residence of the purchasers. A few of the most celebrated works noticed in these pages are now to be seen In the Vatican -such as, the Transfiguration, and the Madonna del Foligno, by Raphael, - the Communion of St. J erome, by Domenichino, -the Dream of St. Romuald, by Andrea Sacchi. - the Depositing of the Body of our Saviour in the Tomb, by Caravaggio, ~ - and.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.