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Ii.—Female Artists. By An Italian.
in historical paintings . Here we Iiave tlie lavish ornament and tlie artistic science of the Caracci and their followers . ( 19 )
Lavinia "was married to Count Paolo Zappi , a rich nobleman , who frequented the studio of her father for amusement , but who attained
sen small ted proficienc to be his y wife in this on most the condition difficult of that arts she . should Lavinia remain , who con free - the
to follow her artistic career , employed her husband in painting content dresses with of her being sitters a tailor , say " ing , She " Since was you unhappy cannot in be her an t children artist , be ,
b served of w runnin hom to g she amuse a p had in in the three to l it . ; and Her ers one in onl t of y her girl P boys lost ' s an was the te- si half chamber gh -witted of one . , The and eye gope
i s shrewd t tory came ran not canon that from , he Malvasia his inherited mother , his ( almost who simp was lici a t as contemporary y from full of his talent father , ) and adds ; assuredl sagacity , " The y
by o as f the M she she arino Roman was held good by academy p her eg and gi con , by ; virtuous temp her Baldi , praises oraries . , " by ( 20 B were that ) orghini She when celebr . was ated she In elected such passed , amon estimation a g near member other the s ,
was , seat of the Lord of Sora and Vignola , the proud patrician ( a member of the house of Boncanipagniof Bologna ) came out to
xaeet her at the head of his retainers , according , to the fashion then in for the tion of royal personages .
vogue recep tan Not the onl Roman y the _Bolognese the Vene school tian , and but , the indeed Florentine , almost , the ever Neapoli y other , -
num , ber women artists , in their ranks , during the epoch of Christian do art wn . fi " The Florentine scientifi school c rinci , " says les of Lanzi art . , " Other was schools the first confined to lay pp
themselves to a close imitation of nature , imitating mechanically naries what they of the saw Florentine , so to speak scho , ol on L the eonardo surface da . V The inci and two B fi uonaro rst lumi tti - ,
canons changeless philosop of hers art laws as which of they the are were phenomena now , sou universall , ght around for y the recognised them abiding , and . " ca thus ( / 21 use ) , fixed and the the few
great This master school s , , then we find , was in the it first small in ability drawing in , but group , excepting ing , a cer a tain povert in certain y of co sense lor , and merel harshness extrinsic in merits drapery or . defe These cts , in it art is t ; but , are , if
no we a school except was Rap so well l , w able ho y soars as the Florentine le like above to reveal all other transparentl painters y , determined the
the second ideal epoch furnished of art by in Christianit human history y , which , as Greek , we repeat Beato religion , did the first .
It is sufficient to name Giotto , and , above all , Angelico . No than " that ( 19 ) she _"So other became eminen portrait the t was ar painter tist Lavinia of by Gregory in tlie this Roman XI branch II ., and ladies of art whose more , " writes magnificence sought Lanzi after ,
she ( 20 rendered ) any Felsina better Pittrico than , Parte any 118 man II . in the world could have , done . "
( 21 ) Lanzi , Vol . I . * p . .
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170 GAIXERY OF _rLLUSTBIOTJS _ITALIAN WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/26/
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