The Louvre: Fifty Plates in ColourBrockwell, Maurice W.
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The Louvre: Fifty Plates in Colour
Brockwell, Maurice W.
Musée du Louvre
Panetti was the master of Benvenuto Tisi, a very prolific painter who
is better known by the name of Garofalo (1481?-1559), owing to his
occasionally painting a gillyflower into his pictures as a signature.
Although the Catalogue includes four small works by this artist, a
_Circumcision_ (No. 1550), a _Holy Family_ (No. 1552), a _Madonna and
Child_ (No. 1554), and a _Sleeping Child Jesus_ (No. 1553), only the
last of them is now exhibited.
Another artist in this school who signed his pictures with a _rebus_
was Giovanni Lutero (1479?-1542), who is better known under the name
of Dosso Dossi. A typical instance of this punning use of his name is
the _Money Changers driven out of the Temple_, in the Doria Gallery at
Rome; it is signed with a “D” traversed by a bone (_osso_), obviously
a play on his name of Dosso or D OSSO. No picture by Dosso Dossi is now
exhibited.
Francesco Bonsignori (1455-1519), Marco Zoppo (fl. 1471-1498), Michele
Coltellini (1480-1542), Ippolito Scarsellino (1551-1620), Girolamo
da Carpi, and other Ferrarese painters are unrepresented in this
collection.
THE SCHOOL OF MILAN
The painters who practised in Milan in the fourteenth century were
little better than provincial craftsmen who had come within the range
of the Giottesque tradition without grasping the more vital of its
principles. Those who worked in Milanese territory in the first half of
the fifteenth century acquired some of the reflected influences which
passed from the work of Pisanello and Jacopo Bellini in Verona, and
from the more striking achievements of the Paduan and early Venetian
schools, but their work lacked all trace of originality.
A painter of the name of Michelino Molinari da Besozzo (fl. 1394-1442),
or Michele da Pavia, was painting at Milan about 1420. However,
there cannot be said to have been a school of painting, but only an
aggregation of painters in Milanese territory, prior to the arrival at
Pavia and Milan of the Brescian-born master, Vicenzo Foppa, about 1458.
Previous to that important event, if not throughout the whole range of
its activity, Milanese art lacked the higher elements of genius in all
matters æsthetic. As a school it was to the end too inclined to mere
prettiness and superficial sweetness.
The Umbrian-born architect and painter, Bramante (1444-1514), who had
received his education in Florence, painted in Lombardy from 1472-1474,
as his Panigarola frescoes now in the Brera testify. Bramante also
influenced Foppa, whose work is well defined and whose colouring is
subdued.
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