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Ii.—Female Artists. By An Italian.
Paradise one can look without at their feeling Madonnas that they , angels are , the and same saints that , those were g dreamed lories of
, of When by the at ascetic the time writers of Vinci of the and Catholic Buonarotti legend , drawing . , composition ,
the color discovery , were , carried of many to a Greek higher statues degree , of art two perfection had becom , and e who , somewhat owing knew to
ture how Pagan — to , An keep the drea Florentine art del pure Sarto , without scho and ol Fra produced disdaining Bartolomeo the della great newest Porta ones means . Plautilla of
culimitator Nelli was of a Andrea pupil of the She latter was born , and , of at a a noble subsequent Florentine period famil , an y ,
. prioress and was of known the convent by the of name S . Caterina of Suor of Plautilla Siena in , because _Florence she . " was So to
hi excite ghly the finishe wonder d , " writes of artists Vasari . " _, He " were mentions four of a much her paintings praised , paint as
-Another ing of hers lost , representing alsobut which the was Adoration once in of the the mon Mag astery i , which of S . is Lucia lost .
in Florence , , represented , the Madonna surrounded by seven male and female saintsIn the Academy of the Fine Arts there is still
pre-. served a Descent from the Cross , which partakes of the style of Andrea del Sarto . We notice the same purity of contour , the same
trusting harmony Indeed some repose of li have g , ht so thoug and to speak shade ht that , which , the the , same characterise picture grace was of the desi drapery works gned by of there , the Andrea Andrea same is .
himself . In the small refectory of S . Maria Novella , a and Last in Supp SGiovannino er , by her ; at in Florence S . Maria a del small Fiore icture , there of is the an Virg altar in -p . iece In ; p
the Last . Supper we see more plainl , y that she is the disciple of Fra BartolomeoShe was much praised for her copies of his pictures ;
no Vinci easy in task chiaroscuro . , since he , hi was ghl superior y original to in Rap composition hael in color , and , the esp rival eciall of y
hers grand , in with drawing landscape the nude , which figure he . Lanzi says mention would ' s do an collection E credit piphany to is of a a modern artist ( 22 ) In the Earl of Shrewsburys
. Madonna de Casa Colonna , by Suor Plautilla . Her copy of Bronzino ' s Nativity is a magnificent work . She also painted
effeminate many miniatures air . She Pier was princi born pal in defect 1523 is that and all lived her to men the have an of age
. , sixt If y _iive the . Florentine school is mainly characterised by truth of
are drawing color magnificence , , and grandeu worshi r p of of of architecture the composition ideal , the . and chief It would of attributes sty be le , a beauty work of the more Venetian of land than
human scape , to combine the merits of the two schools . Nor does there Venetian seem any painters sufficient , that ground they for were the neg parrot ligent -like in cry drawing again . st It the is
sufficient ( 22 ) Vol to . L point , p . 20 to o . the ¦ two Venuses in the Tribune at Florence ,
Galileky Of Illustkious Italian Women, 1...
_GALILEKY OF ILLUSTKIOUS _ITALIAN WOMEN , 171
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 171, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/27/
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