The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 5 (of 6): From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth CenturyLanzi, Luigi
History
The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 5 (of 6): From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century
Lanzi, Luigi
Painting -- Italy -- History
The other foreign pupils of the Cav. Carlo, who diffused his manner through
the Italian schools, are commemorated in the places where they flourished;
as Lamberti, for instance, at Rome, and Parolini at Ferrara. Here I shall
add a brief sketch of the artists of Romagna, whom I unite to those of
Bologna. Antonio Santi was an Ariminese, whose school only is mentioned by
Crespi; but in the Guide of Rimini, where a few of his works remain, he is
extolled as one of its best pupils, though he died young. The same Guide
makes mention of some paintings in oil and fresco, particularly in the
church of the Angioli, attributed to Angiolo Sarzetti, pupil to Cignani;
from whom, also, he obtained a design for an altar-piece at S. Colomba.
Innocenzio Monti is included by Crespi among the Bolognese, and by Orlandi
among the painters of Imola, where he left some works. One, of the
Circumcision of our Lord, at the Gesù of Mirandola, executed in 1690, is
extolled in a little book of poems. He was more industrious than ingenious,
and more successful in Germany and in Poland than in Italy. Gioseffo Maria
Bartolini, also of Imola, is esteemed, in his native place, for a Miracle
of S. Biagio, and for other works at S. Domenico, and in other churches. He
was employed a good deal at Imola, where he opened school, and throughout
Romagna; an artist of great facility, and partaking, in some degree, of the
manner of Pasinelli, his first master.
The artists of Forli, among whom Cignani lived during some years, are not a
few. Filippo Pasquali was colleague to Franceschini, whose grand
altar-piece at Rimini he surrounded with a very pleasing ornament. Some of
his earliest efforts are met with in Bologna, at the portico of the
Serviti; but not equal to the altar-piece in the church of S. Vittore at
Ravenna, which he painted at a more advanced age, and which does him great
credit. Andrea and Francesco Bondi, two brothers, are recorded by
Guarienti; though, in the Guides of Pesaro and Ravenna only one is alluded
to, whose name is not given; and what pieces I saw at Forli itself would
seem to have proceeded from one hand; such as the chapel of S. Antonio, at
the Carmelites, the Crucifixion at S. Filippo, besides others. He boasts
the fine execution of Cignani; but the forms and expressions are not
equally select. Among other artists of Forli, instructed by Cignani, was
the priest Sebastiano Savorelli, employed in some church paintings even in
the adjacent cities. To him we may add Mauro Malducci, and Francesco
Fiorentini, both priests, too, of Forli; of all of whom there is found some
account in the life of Cignani.
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