The History of Painting in Italy: The schools of Lombardy, Mantua, Modena, Parma, Cremona, and MilanW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1828 |
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Seite 213 - ... most frequently resembling the Florentine manner, though occasionally displaying a new and original style, not common to any other school of Italy. Among these anonymous productions in the ancient style, * See Notizie delle Pitture, Sculture, ed Architetture d' Italia, by Sig. Bertoli, p. 41, &c. ^ the most remarkable is what remains in the sacristy of Le Grazie, where every panel presents us with some act from the Old or the New Testament. The author would appear to have lived during the latter...
Seite 125 - He might have pleaded the example of the ancients, who in their draped statues, observed similar proportions, in order to avoid falling, into vulgarity. The length of the fingers was rather subject of praise, as is noticed by the commentators on Catullus. (See his 44th Ode.) A long neck in virgins is inculcated by Malvasia, as a precept of the art, (tom.
Seite 155 - Mantegna, Vannucci, and Francia, in their respective schools, the best modern among the ancients, and the best of the ancients in the list of the moderns.
Seite 269 - ... with middle tints, blended so skilfully as to equal the most beautiful produced by any other artist. And if we may so say, he represented the minds even better than the forms of his subjects. He particularly studied this branch of the art, and we seldom observe more marked attitudes or more expressive countenances. Where he adds landscape or architecture to his figures, the former chiefly consists of very fanciful views of cliffs and rocks, which are calculated to charm by their novelty ; while...
Seite 244 - I perfectly finished than the rest ; a deficiency, nevertheless, that cannot always be detected even by the best judges. The portrait, for instance, of M. Lisa Gioconda, painted at Florence ' in the period of four years, and then, according to Vasari, left imperfect, was minutely examined by Mariette, in the collection of the king of France, and was declared to be carried to so high a degree of finish, that it was impossible to surpass it. The defect will be more easily...
Seite 73 - Such a fact is calculated to bring into still higher estimation the geniuses who adorned it. There is nothing of which man is more ambitious than of being called the inventor of new arts : nothing is more flattering to his intellect, or draws a broader line between him and the animals that are incapable of such inventions, or of carrying them beyond the limits prescribed by instinct. In short, nothing was held in higher reverence among the ancients ; and hence it is, that Virgil, in his Elysian fields,...
Seite 282 - This skill became hereditary in tho family, and Scipione, the son of Girolamo, was equally distinguished. His chases of different animals were in great request for royal cabinets, a number of them being collected by Philip of Spain and the English king Henry. Marcantonio, son of Scipione, followed the genius of the family, and is mentioned by Lomazzo in 1591 as a youth of great promise. This writer has also praised for her skill in the same line, Caterina Cantona, a noble Milanese lady, and has omitted...