The Pavement Masters of Siena (1369-1562)Cust, Robert H. Hobart (Robert Henry Hobart)
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The Pavement Masters of Siena (1369-1562)
Cust, Robert H. Hobart (Robert Henry Hobart)
Art -- Italy -- Siena; Duomo di Siena; Pavements, Mosaic
This artist must not be confused with the more famous Giacomo di
Bartolommeo di Marco Cozzarelli, who was a sculptor and worker in
metal, nor do we know, whether or no, he was related in any way to
the engineer Giovanni Cozzarelli, a notice of whose work on a bridge
at Macereto, we find under date 3rd of November, 1487.[205] This man
was a painter of considerable ability, whose pictures may be studied
in the Picture Gallery, and who executed some of the miniatures in
the Duomo Antiphonaries. We read that in 1447, he was employed with
Sano di Pietro, to decorate the Chapel (now destroyed) of the Madonna
delle Grazie in the Cathedral; and that in 1481, he was employed on the
decoration of the interior of the Cupola. Professor Luigi Mussini[206]
suggests that the Tavoletta di Biccherna (No. 34 of those preserved in
the Archivio di Stato), representing _The Presentation of the Virgin
in the Temple_, is by him.
34. 1484. _Bernardino d’Antonio._
35. 1484. _Cristofano di Pietro Paolo del Quarantotto._
Of these men nothing is known but the reference to them here.
36. 1505–6. _Bernardino di Benedetto or Betto_ (_Il Pinturicchio_).
Of this painter, and his work, so much has been written elsewhere, that
I shall only attempt the briefest sketch of his life here.
He was a native of Perugia, was the son of a certain Betto or
Benedetto, and was born in 1454. He had six children by his wife
Grania: Adriana, who married Giuseppe, son of Giovanni of Perugia, and
died in 1518: Clelia or Egidia, who married Girolamo, son of Paolo
of Perugia, called _Paffa_, a soldier of the guard of Siena; Giulio
Cesare (b. 1506); Camillo (b. 1509); Faustina Girolama (b. 1510); and
Faustina, who married Filippo, son of Paolo of Perugia, or of Deruta.
His frescoes in the Libreria of the Duomo, and the chapel of S.
Giovanni, are among the most celebrated of Italian works of art. Vasari
relates many more or less fictitious stories about his life and doings,
which, though amusing to read, are not borne out by fact. He died in
1513, and was buried in the Church of SS. Vincenzo and Anastasia, the
Chapel of the _Contrada of the Porcupine_ (_Istrice_).
37. 1505–6. _Paolo Mannucci._
Of this artist, nothing is known, but the notice already quoted, which
states that he was employed to execute Pinturicchio’s design of the
_Allegory of Fortune_. (No. 36.)
[Illustration:
LOMBARDI PHOTO.] [LILY DESIGNED BY ANTONIO FEDERIGHI (?)
A. DESIGNED BY DOMENICO BECCAFUMI
XXIV. DRAWINGS OF DETAILS]
38. 1518. _Domenico di Jacopo di Pace Beccafumi, called Mecarino_ (_or
Mecherino_).
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