Fine Arts Almanack, Or, Artists' Remembrancer (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...78th year, bequeathing an esteemed name to the English School of Painting. On the 8th of October, 1517, died Fra Bartolomeo, at the age of 48 He was born in the little town of Savignano, in the territory of Prato, near Florence. Nothing of his youth is known except that, having shown a disposition to the Art of Design, he was placed under the tuition of Cosmo Roselli, a very good Florentine painter, and that he lived with some relations who resided near La Porta San Piero, one of the gates of Florence. Hence he received the name of Baccio della Porta, by which appellation he was known for the first thirty years of his life among his companions, Baccio being the Tuscan diminutive of Bartolomeo. During his apprenticeship to Cosmo Roselli, Bartolomeo formed a friendship with a young painter named Mariotto Albertinelli. This attachment was so strong that they painted together, some time even on the same picture, and in style and sentiment were so similar that it has become difficult to distinguish their works, although Baccio's pictures developed more softness and harmony of colour than Albertinelli's. He appears to have heen a religious enthusiast from his youth, and although the Court of Italy at that time was in a very luxurious and licentious state (the infamous Ccesar Borgia being the Pope), he was never corrupted by any of the temptations of the time. He acquired a great reputation from the exquisite beauty and tenderness of his " Madonna," and he was employed by the Dominicans of the convent of St Mark to paint a fresco in their church representing the " Last Judgment." Bartolomeo, struck with the eloquence and earnestness of Savonarola, a friar in the convent of St. Mark, flung all those of his paintings, drawings and designs, which ...