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164 GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN...
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Ii.—Female Artists. By An Italian.
notable And the fact great that historian in of pursuit art , Vasari for which , writes women thus have : — "It at is any a
, every ceeded time chosen marvellousl to prepare and themselves rendered by themselve study , they s more have than always famous suc- . y
It would be easy to shew , this by countless examples , and certainly , age at no , when period women can the have fact acquired be more the easil most y recognised solid fame almost than , not in in our letters own if
they entering only , had but the in resolve every field d of other to toil stri department p with our their sex of . white its It would vaunt and tender of superiorit hands seem y , as , and by
forcing the rough marble and the rugged iron to aid them in accomwas p Nicold lishing Caterina professor d their 'Este de object to of Vigri the jurisprudence , and was Republic winning born of in at their Venice Ferrara Bologna laurels . , Educated a , . . d " and . ( 1413 7 ) ambassador in ; her the father most of
exalted 1456 of reli which gious she mysticism became , abbess she founded . In 1712 a convent the Catholic at Bologna church , in
inscribed , her name in the second category of , saints , with the title of JBeata . Initiated into the art of painting by Maestro Vitale ,
( better known by the name of Lippo delle Madonne , ) she poured of all painting her relig had ious alread enthusiasm begun into to her emanci works pate . itself In her from time technical , the art
obstacles ; its conceptions y were clothed in less rigid forms , and embellished with freer lines ; the drapery was more flowing , the
tints Caterin more a belonged happily , harmonised never , during . all Yet its the development Bolognese school _throiig , _hoiit to which the school
of althoug great the epoch Virg h they in of painted rose art , contemporaneousl attained in 1282 the and excellence still y . retains Bologna of the mementos Florentine possesses of pictures artists ,
, This of the school previous was century first made —among illustrious them , Ventura by the , Trecentisti Ursone , and , O Guido derisi . ,
the and church Franco of , ( the Mezzarata master of and Lippo later , ) whose it boasts works as its are greatest preserve glory d in ,
fall the master of the Florentine genius of Francia far ; above . The all , others Bolognese and school be rose said , affcer to have the may
iven laws to art at the , era of the Caracci , in the sixteenth century , with g whom the luminous period of Christian , art finally closed .
There are still extant several miniatures , and a child Jesus painted on wood by Caterina ; and in the Pinacoteca of Bologna , a St .
the The Ursula Cathedral mini , standing atures of evinc Ferrara and enfolding e great there delicacy in is her a robe psalter and her firmness on kneeling the marg of companions touch in of . the At .
, clothes first page , and of on which the folds is a is miniature the inscrip of tion the " _JE child go _, I . Jesus U to . S . BamfFaldi simi in swaddling flos vitce is " ..
child possessed Another Jesus , still by on more the wood monks delicatel is a precious of y the finished Corpus work , ( for according Domini chastexiess in Bologna of desi . gn , , The ) for
( 7 ) Vasari , Vite , etc ., Yol , IX ,
164 Gallery Of Illustrious Italian Women...
164 GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 164, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/20/
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