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
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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
There, his pictures of the Assumption and the Nuptials of Cana, at the
Benedettini; the Pietà, and the S. John Beheaded, in that church; with the
_Noli me tangere_, at S. Niccolo, are among the most celebrated; also at
the Oratorio della Scala, his Pentecost, his Annunciation, and his
Epiphany, conducted in competition with the Presentation of Annibal
Caracci; of all which there are seen, on a small scale, a number of
repetitions or copies in private houses. They are to be met with too at
Rome, where Scarsellino's paintings are not rare. Some are at the
Campidoglio, and at the palaces of the Albani, Borghesi, Corsini, and in
greater number at the Lancellotti. I have sometimes examined them in
company with professors who never ceased to extol them. They recognised
various imitations of Paul Veronese in the inventions, and the copiousness;
of Parmigianino in the lightness and grace of the figures: of Titian in the
fleshes, and particularly in a Bacchanal in Casa Albani; of Dossi and Carpi
in his strength of colour, in those fiery yellows, in those deep
rose-colours, in that bright tinge given also to the clouds and to the air.
What sufficiently distinguishes him too, are a few extremely graceful
countenances, which he drew from two of his daughters; a light shading
which envelopes the whole of his objects without obscuring them, and that
slightness of design which borders almost on the dry, in opposition,
perhaps, to that of Bastiano Filippi, sometimes reproached with exhibiting
coarse and heavy features.
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