Identifier: historyofpaintin01crow (find matches)
Title: A history of painting in north Italy; Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Millan, Friuli, Brescia, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Crowe, J. A. (Joseph Archer), 1825-1896 Cavalcaselle, G. B. (Giovanni Battista), 1820-1897
Subjects: Painting Painting, Gothic Painting, Renaissance
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e, called the Schal-cheria, should contain frescos by Mantegna. By a luckychance it happens that the first of these rooms is fairlypreserved, and that the frescos are authenticated bya signature. The name by Avhich the place was knownis, according to Ridolfi, ^^ Camera degli Sposi,^^ thoughin its configuration and arrangement resembling a dining-hall. The northern side is most completely filled withpaintings; above the door leading to the suite of ducalapartments now occupied by the Mantuan records, aflight of winged angels in a landscape supports a tabletwith an inscription alluding to the Marquis Lodovico,his wife Barbara and Mantegna, and dated 1474. To Cardinal ¥. Gonzaga to Lodo-vico, Foligno, July 18, 1472. Lo-dov. to Mantegna, July 1472, fromthe country-seat of Gonzaga (Gaz.d. B. A. 334—5. 2 Darco, Arti di Mantua, IL 13. The property of Buscoldo was ex-empted in Nov. 20, 1472. In 1474another property at Goito was ex-empted from dazio e Gabellalikewise. (lb. ib.) NoKTH Italy.
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riiiV/^AGA AND HIS FAiilLY ; a fresco m toe Castello of Mantua,by Andrea, Maote^na. CuAP. XIV. MANTEGNA AT MANTUA. 391 the left of the door a groom holds the Marquiss charger^and servants a brood of large white hounds in leashes.To the right the Marquis^ accompanied by his children^meets his son the boy cardinal^ Francesco Gonzaga, nearRome; the followers of both being arranged in a formal^but not ill-conceived group. On the western face a shieldis supported by four children.^ The northern wall isbare. On the eastern above the chimney, Lodovico, inan arm-chair, receives a message from his chamberlain, ina garden decorated Avith a classic temple. He is sur-rounded by Barbara of Hohcnzollern, her daughter anda female dwarf, and a suite of persons of both sexes. Ina neighbouring compartment is a reception of guests on astaircase—all the figures over life-size. The ceiling of this 1 Mantua, Castcllo. The inscrip-tion, though repainted over anold surface corroded hy time, isattested in i

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