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
Afterwards, Perino del Vaga, who at that time was painting the Chapel of
M. Agnolo de' Massimi in the Trinita, having need of a young man who
might help him, Daniello, desiring to make proficience, and drawn by his
promises, went to work with him and assisted him to execute certain
things in the work of that chapel, which he carried to completion with
much diligence. Now, before the sack of Rome Perino had painted on the
vaulting of the Chapel of the Crocifisso in S. Marcello, as has been
related, the Creation of Adam and Eve in figures of the size of life,
and in much larger figures two Evangelists, S. John and S. Mark, which
were not yet completely finished, since the figure of S. John was
wanting from the middle upwards; and the men of that Company resolved,
when the affairs of Rome had finally become settled again, that the same
Perino should finish the work. But he, having other work to do, made the
cartoons and had it finished by Daniello, who completed the S. John that
had been left unfinished, painted all by himself the two other
Evangelists, S. Luke and S. Matthew, between them two little boys that
are holding a candelabrum, and, on the arch of the wall that contains
the window, two Angels standing poised on their wings in the act of
flight, who are holding in their hands the Mysteries of the Passion of
Jesus Christ; and he adorned the arch richly with grotesques and little
naked figures of great beauty. In short, he acquitted himself
marvellously well in all that work, although he took a considerable time
over it.
[Illustration: THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS
(_After the fresco by =Daniello Ricciarelli=. Rome: SS. Trinita dei
Monti_)
_Anderson_]
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