Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 06 (of 10): Fra Giocondo to Niccolo SoggiVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 06 (of 10): Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
Domenico died very old, and was buried in S. Bernardino, wherein are the
works by his hand described above, leaving his son, Francesco Morone,
heir to his property and his talents. This Francesco, who learned the
first principles of art from his father, afterwards exerted himself in
such a manner that in a short time he became a much better master than
his father had been, as the works that he executed in emulation of those
of his father clearly demonstrate. Below his father's work on the altar
of the Monte, in the aforesaid Church of S. Bernardino, Francesco
painted in oils the folding-doors that enclose the altar-piece of
Liberale; on the inner side of which he depicted in one the Virgin, and
in the other S. John the Evangelist, both life-size figures, with great
beauty in the faces, which are weeping, in the draperies, and in every
other part. In the same chapel, at the foot of the face of that wall
which serves as head-wall to the tramezzo,[8] he painted the Miracle
that Our Lord performed with the five loaves and two fishes, which
satisfied the multitude; and in this are many beautiful figures and
many portraits from life, but most of all is praise given to a S. John
the Evangelist, who is very slender, and has his back partly turned
towards the spectator. He then executed in the same place, beside the
altar-piece, in the vacant spaces on the wall against which it rests, a
S. Louis, Bishop and Friar of S. Francis, and another figure; with some
heads in foreshortening in a sunk medallion on the vaulting. All these
works are much extolled by the painters of Verona. And for the altar of
the Cross, on which are so many painted pictures, between that chapel
and the Chapel of the Medici, in the same church, he executed a picture
which is in the centre above all the others, containing Christ on the
Cross, the Madonna, and S. John, and very beautiful. In another picture,
which is above that of Caroto, on the left-hand side of the same altar,
he painted Our Lord washing the feet of the Apostles, who are seen in
various attitudes; in which work, so men say, this painter made a
portrait of himself in the figure of one who is serving Christ by
bringing water.
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