I will confess, for my small part, that I had more pleasure in the coloring and feeling of some of the older canvases and in here and there a Titian than in all the Raphaels in the Stanze of his name.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
They did not prevail so clutteringly in the sculpture galleries as in the Sistine Chapel and the Stanze.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
Therefore in the S. George of the Louvre, and in the mounted horseman trampling upon Heliodorus in the Stanze of the Vatican, victorious Astorre lives for ever, immortalised in all his splendour by the painter's art.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds