Identifier: dictionaryofpain05brya (find matches)
Title: Dictionary of painters and engravers
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bryan, Michael, 1757-1821 Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942
Subjects: Painters Engravers
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ust have paintedthe Madonna and Child with Angels in thesacristy of the Church of the Redentore at Venice—one of the loveliest of all his creations—remark-able alike for its deeply devotional feeling, itssimplicity of conception, and its bright colour andcareful technical execution. Although still tradi-tionally attributed to Giovanni Bellini, it showsno further signs of that masters influences thando Alvises other paintings. This picture is almosta replica of the Madonna of 1489, in the Galleryat Vienna. A later, and unfortunately but little-known work by Alvise, is the beautiful singlefigure of Sta. Giustina de Borromei, in thecollection of Sig. Bagati-Valsecchi at Milan—oneof the most exquisite creations of later VenetianQuattrocento art. A careful study of Alvises works, and moreespecially of certain of the highly-individualizedheads to be found in his various altar-pieces—not to mention the existence of at least onesigned portrait (once in the Bonomi-Cereda LUIGI VIVARINI
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Hanfstdnglphoto) (Berlin Gallery THE MADONNA AND CHILD, WITH SAINTS PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS. Collection at Milan, now in the possession ofMr. George Salting, of London)—would, itwould seem, have long ago awakened a specialinterest on the part of critics in Alvises remark-able talent for portraiture. It has remained, how-ever, for comparatively recent connoisseurship togive back to him a number of portraits which havehitherto passed under other names. Among themwe may note such works as the head of a man,ascribed to Antonello da Messina, in the CommunalGallery at Padua ; the charming bust of a boy,once in the Duchatel Collection at Paris, and nowbelonging to Mr. Salting, formerly attributed bothto Antonello and Andrea Solario ; the fine portraitof Bernardo di Sella in the Louvre, generallyascribed to Savoldo; that of a man with a hawk,at Windsor Castle, also given by some critics toSavoldo • another remarkably vigorous bust of aman, attributed to Antonello, in the possessionof the C

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