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GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN. .2...
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Ii.—Female Aetists. By An" Itaxi-Ajst.
because , following * Caravaggio ' s example , they indulged in sudden tints sweeps soon of heavy disappeared shadows , so One overcharged of the best with of color this that category the half of
. painters was a certain Nicold Henieri . He painted with grace and vigor , and his four daughters , Anna , Angelica , Clorinda , and le of artobtained
Luereziawhom he educated in the same sty , great , reputation But while in art Venice in the . city of Venice was reduced to such a wretched
state , the Veronese still sustained in part the honor of the Venetian school Cecilia , under by the her great father fresco ' s tuition painter , became , Brusasorci celebrated , whose for daug her hter
portraits towards , the end of the sixteenth century ; by Enea Salmeggia , calle il d Tal and pino daug , great hter among Chiara the Salmegg followers ia of ( Hap 1624 hael ;) ; and by his by talented Dario
pup Varotariwho labored , to unite the magnificence , of Paulo Veronese with the , chasteness of lines which distinguishes the quattroceniisti ;
hundred during hand the p , ortr ( 1660 the ait ar last , of ) s is of his preserve century daug outshone hter d of in the the and republic a Florentine pup bri il ht , of Chiara new St gallery . Mark star , done . , in then Neverth b the y her fourteen artistic eless own , ageg
manner full hemisp the Teresiani of here genius worth ye , Giambattista in , y he Venice of closed its , past bears the Tiep grandeur long amp olo _, perio le Restless , testimony and d of the Venetian and to frescoed unregulated the painting truth ceiling of , in thi but of a s
assertion ; here the composition , , the ordonnance , the audacity of the foreshortenings , the wonderful chiaroscuro _, and , above all , the magic enchains
li the ght gaze that . radiates In the interval from the that entire divides _fresco the , fascinates Tenebrosi from and Tiepolo , a woman obtained European celebrity in a secondary branch of art ,
i . e ., in crayon drawing . ( 36 ) Rosalba Carriera was born in Venice in 1675 , and lived "to the age of eighty two . She soon outstripped
period ( 36 ) . This Giovanna style of Fratellini painting , who seems m _Lansi to in have calls been " well much illustrious in in vogue oil fema miniature le at this tist
from and enamel the ting school the . So portraits of famous Gabbiani of did Cosmo , " painted she III become and crayons as famil a portrait as a drawing as painter consisting , , that after of
fourteen execu ble for fi its gures judicious in a superb disposition apartment and . lovel of the coloring richest y , architecture her patron , remark sent her
throughout an a , d free" Ital writes y to paint Pilkington the other , " her princes carnations . y " Her are pencil , natural is light and , delica full t of e ,
warmth , and lifeandas she understood perspective aud architecture pictures chosen thoroughl full with y , of she magnificent variety made , , and an elegant ornaments remarkable use . of for Her that a noble draperies knowled simplicity are ge , generally enr . i Her ching works well her
the rendered gallery , her at famous Florence , not , ; she only painte in Ital d herself y , but in in Europe the act . ' of Her drawing portrait her is son in and pupil , Lorenzo , in whom were centred all her hopes . Under earl her
tuition His mother he made never rap recovered id progress from in tli art e , blow but died life suddenly and art had at an alike lost y age all . followed ; him to the 1666
their 1731 , charms for her , and she speedily grave . :- ~*
Gallery Of Illustrious Italian Women. .2...
GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN . . 237
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/21/
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