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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c productions of a rarethough well-known master. As examples of a peculiartaste they were almost unique; they might lack manyqualities of selection, of form, of drawing, and of colour,for they were due to men who had many superiors inother schools, but they were very fairly composed andpowerfully conceived, and they gave copious illustrationsof the manner in Avhich the influence of Mantegna andthat of the Venetians became commingled at the close ofthe 15 century. All that we can guess from the frag-ments preserved at Belluno and Padua, is that the 1 Anon. 5, Gonz. la Basilica, ii. s.I. 59, and Doc. XLIII. The mo-nochromes here and the arms ofGattamelata are classical, in theMantegnesque style, and recallthe detail of Andreas triumphsat Hampton Court; the rest ofthe chapel is whitewashed. See also Scardeone, Antiqu. Patav.373. 2 Gonzat. u. s. I. 66. 3 lb. I. 295—6, and Doc. CXLII.A marriage of S* Catherine stillin this cloister may possibly havebeen by Lorenzo Canozzi or daLendinara.
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ClIAP. XIII. MONTAGNANA. 363 outlines were rough^ vviry, and coarse^ as compared withthose of the great Paduan^ that the flesh was metallicin tone^ and that it was painted with liquid tints ina resolute and hasty methods We might easily be ledby comparison to assign to the same hand the ma-donna crowned by angels in the Communal Galleryat BassanO; a fresco once in the Pretorio of that town.That such a work should have been attributed to Man-tegna is natural when we look at the form and archi- ^ Belluno town-hall. Of thishtall, rebuilt twenty years ago ona modern scale, we are told byPiloni (u. s. lib. V. p. 200) thatit was first erected in 1409. In acalendar of records preserved inthe Municipio of Belluno (Dizio-nario di Francesco Alpago, 808bre 1778, p. 210) we read: No.10, 1490, 12 Nov. nel libro delleProvigioni Let. L. (The book it-self is missing.) Pitture sopra lafacciata del Palazzo Vecchio enella Comunita (Hall of Council)di Giacomo da Montagnana. Cos-torono Due. 280 doro ... M

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