Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10): Bastiano to Taddeo ZuccheroVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10): Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
Another pupil of Francesco Salviati was Giuseppe Porta of Castelnuovo
della Garfagnana, who, out of respect for his master, was also called
Giuseppe Salviati. This Giuseppe, having been taken to Rome as a boy, in
the year 1535, by an uncle, the secretary of Monsignor Onofrio
Bartolini, Archbishop of Pisa, was placed with Salviati, under whom he
learned in a short time not only to draw very finely, but also to use
colour excellently well. He then went with his master to Venice, where
he formed so many connections with noble persons, that, being left there
by Francesco, he made up his mind that he would choose that city as his
home; and so, having taken a wife there, he has lived there ever since,
and he has worked in few other places but Venice. He painted long ago
the facade of the house of the Loredani on the Campo di S. Stefano, with
scenes very pleasingly coloured in fresco and executed in a beautiful
manner. He painted, likewise, that of the Bernardi at S. Polo, and
another behind S. Rocco, which is a very good work. Three other facades
he has painted in chiaroscuro, very large and covered with various
scenes--one at S. Moise, the second at S. Cassiano, and the third at S.
Maria Zebenigo. He has also painted in fresco, at a place called
Treville, near Treviso, the whole of the Palace of the Priuli, a rich
and vast building, both within and without; of which building there will
be a long account in the Life of Sansovino; and at Pieve di Sacco he has
painted a very beautiful facade. At Bagnuolo, a seat of the Friars of
S. Spirito at Venice, he has executed an altar-piece in oils; and for
the same fathers he has painted the ceiling, or rather, soffit of the
refectory in the Convent of S. Spirito, with a number of compartments
filled with painted pictures, and a most beautiful Last Supper on the
principal wall. For the Hall of the Doge, in the Palace of S. Marco, he
has painted the Sibyls, the Prophets, the Cardinal Virtues, and Christ
with the Maries, which have won him vast praise; and in the
above-mentioned Library of S. Marco he painted two large scenes, in
competition with the other painters of Venice of whom mention has been
made above. Being summoned to Rome by Cardinal Emulio after the death of
Francesco, he finished one of the larger scenes that are in the Hall of
Kings, and began another; and then, Pope Pius IV having died, he
returned to Venice, where the Signoria commissioned him to paint a
ceiling with pictures in oils, which is at the head of the new staircase
in the Palace.
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