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. GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN. ...
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Ii.—Female Artists. By An Italian.
it of Caracci is his difficult figures repeatedl to . distinguish Saminachini y remarks their on , his tlie "works disci beaut . ple In y , of so later his imitated life heads 3 Sammachini Sabbatini and the grace that
adseeking cupola hered to of in the Corregg Home Roman what io , sty he was le , discovered and not , his -working vocation that in he . Parma ( had 9 ) wasted near the his grand time ,
Fontana was an artist of vigorous fancy and great talent , but he strayed from the pure models of Vasari of Francia , and careless of Innocenzo in drawing of
Iinola , to tread in the steps " . He was , Baldinucci and did not calls stud him y the " the true ainter ; his of coloring the swift is poor brush and / ' and yellowish it was . p
just therless because his Descent he painted from so the swiftl Cross y that deserves he painted an enduring so badly reputation .
Neverfor composition , , for drawing , , for color . The same may be said of his interval of a E Paul piphany between Veronese , which Franci . in His a splendour and artistic Caracci , life grace is . , associated He and was grandeur the with mast , reminds the er of whole his us
daug 1552 hter Inasmuch Lavinia , as who she lived was born at the in close Bologna of the , the period 26 th of of Chri August stian ,
artand . the commencement of ecclectieism , and as the traditions of , Franciaand of Innocenzo of Imola had more influence on her
work than , had those of the Caracci , it seems just to place her among that eries of artistwho labored while the Christian ideal , in all its
ss reli splendour ious , was as yet for above instance the ho in rizon the . Pinacoteca Indeed most of of Bologna her subject there s are is
one g of her ;— paintings , representing , S . Francesco di Paola , with Louis his of Savoy son ( aft kneeling erwards Franci before s him I . ) , to followed receive by his small four blessing women fi . , In of presenting the soldiers
backmusicians ground of the and picture women there . The are numerous work is faithfull gure y and s delicately , _execiited , and Paul Veronese _esiDecially notes the brilliant drapery
of Nativit of the the y Trinity female , of the Virg fi and gures in partakes . , at n Another ight of time the work , is sty still le of of exhibited Lavinia Bassano . in Fontana The the Church virg , the in
is two surrounded children below , by a . cloud S . Pier of Crisologo angels , and , in S magnificent . Domingo bishop is pointing ' s robes to , water two
beautiful is on the kneeling other side g , irls in . the This act painting of sprinkling is in the hol Hercolani y on gallery her in Bologna celebrity . . ( 10 Bolognini ) In the asserts same gallery that is this her p painting icture alone There of the justifies Virg is also in _,
an and Ascension the Saints , belong Cosmo ing , D to amiano the commune , and Caterina of Cento . ( 11 , ( ) 12 ) and a Christ feeding Michele in the Bosco multitude , are five , in beautiful the Church saints of , one the of Mendicanti which , Malvasia . In S .
( ( 1 10 ( 9 1 . ) ) ) Malvasia Pittori B History olnini Bolognesi of , Felsina Painting 88 , Por Pittrioo , Vol te III . _, V Parte . . , , p p . . 89 169 II . ., . p . 178 . () p
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. GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN . 167
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/23/
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