Produced by Barbara Tozier, Carol Brown, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE HISTORY OF PAINTING IN ITALY. VOL. II. THE HISTORY OF PAINTING IN ITALY, FROM THE PERIOD OF THE REVIVAL OF THE FINE ARTS, TO THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: TRANSLATED From the Original Italian OF THE ABATE LUIGI LANZI. BY THOMAS ROSCOE. _IN SIX VOLUMES._ VOL. II. CONTAINING THE SCHOOLS OF ROME AND NAPLES. LONDON: PRINTED FOR W. SIMPKIN AND R. MARSHALL, STATIONERS'-HALL COURT, LUDGATE STREET. 1828. J. M'Creery, Tooks Court, Chancery-lane, London. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. HISTORY OF PAINTING IN LOWER ITALY. BOOK THE THIRD. ROMAN SCHOOL. Page EPOCH I. _The old masters_ 1 EPOCH II. _Raffaello and his school_ 48 EPOCH III. _The art declines, in consequence of the public calamities of Rome, and gradually falls into mannerism_ 124 EPOCH IV. _Restoration of the Roman school by Barocci and other artists, subjects of the Roman state and foreigners_ 177 EPOCH V. _The scholars of Pietro da Cortona, from an injudicious imitation of their master, deteriorate the art_--_Maratta and others support it_ 262 BOOK THE FOURTH. NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL. EPOCH I. _The old masters_ 345 EPOCH II. _Modern Neapolitan style, founded on the schools of Raffaello and Michelangiolo_ 368 EPOCH III. _Corenzio, Ribera, Caracciolo, flourish in Naples_--_Strangers who compete with them_ 389 EPOCH IV. _Luca Giordano, Solimene, and their scholars_ 426 HISTORY OF PAINTING IN LOWER ITALY. BOOK III. ROMAN SCHOOL.