A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
SAN GIOVANNI, Maso da. See Guiw, Tom-
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SANGSTER, Samuel, an en^aver, born in 1804, was a pupil of Finden. He engraved for the annuals and for the ' Art Journal.' His best plates are — ' Neapolitan Peasants on their Wiiy to a Festa,' after Uwins ; 'The Gentle Student' and 'The Forsaken,' after Newton. He died in London in 1872.
SANGDINETO, Rafael, a Spanish noble of the 17th century, who practised painting as an amateur, and was the intimate friend of Alonzo Cano.
SANGUINETTI, Francesco. This clerer Italian sculptor passed the early part of his life as a painter, only taking up with sculpture in 1831. He was born, it is believed, about 1800 at Car- rara, and he died in 1870 at Munich, where for many years he had been residing. For the first few years of his artistic career lie was a very careful, even parsimonious man, saving up all ids money in order to acquire property, but liaving ob- tained it he lost it all at once owing to the fraudu- lent behaviour of a friend. He had a favourite daughter, a very lovely girl, who in the prime of her beauty when about nineteen was assassinated by a jealous lover, and this was a cause of the deepest sorrow to him. He formed a valuable collection of paintings by old masters, spending his money upon them rather than upon real estate, but was swindled out of all of them by a rasca! of a dealer, and finally, through the bursting of a bubble company with which he was concerned, he had to sell the very house in which he lived, and saw all his savings of every kind swept away. He will be remembered by his sculpture, the best of which is at Milan, but his landscapes were not of a very high order. He died in a state of great depression, overwhelmed by worries which had attended him throughout the whole of his life.
SAN MARTINO, Marco, (or Sammaechi,) an Italian landscape painter and engraver, who flourished about 1680. It is in dispute as to whether he was a native of Venice or Naples. Lanzi says he resided at Rimini, where his pictures are more generally to be met with. He ornamented his landscapes with very beautiful small figures, in which he excelled. He also attempted works of a higher order, such as the 'Baptism of Constantine,' in the cathedral of Rimini, and the 'Saint preaching in the Desert,' in the college of S. Vincenzio, at Venice. Bartsoh (P. gr. tom. sxi.) has described 33 prints by him, many ot which have his name in full, Marco San Martino.
SANNI, Domingo Maria, a Spanish painter who flourished in the 18th century. In the Madrid Museum there are two pictures by hira, but the dates of his birth and death are unknown.
SANO, E. B., a Belgian painter of ruins and interiors. He died at Antwerp in 1878.
SANO DI PIETRO DI MENICO, (or Ansano,) painter, was born at Siena in 1406, and principally instructed by Stefano di Giovanni Sassetta. Sano di Pietro was a most prolific artist. The Library at Siena possesses a Codex of the University Statutes, and a Breviary of the Nuns of St. Clara, with his miniatures, while the Academy possesses no fewer than 46 pictures by him. In 1428 he furnished the model for the font in the Baptistery of S. Giovanni in Siena. In 1433 he acted as valuator for Sassetta. He died in 1481. Most of the churches near Siena possess frescoes by hira, and many of the chief European collections paintings. An 'Ascension of the Virgin' in the Academy at Siena, a 'Coronation of the Virgin' in the Town- hall, and a ' Virgin and Saints ' in the church of S. Girolamo, in Siena,' are among his best works. His other chief pictures are —
Paris. Louvre. Five Scenes from the Life of St. Jerome. Kome. Vatican MiiSeum. Scenes from the Life of the Virgin. A Predella. Sieua. Cathedral Library, Several Antiphonaries with miniatures.
SAN SEVERINO, Jacopo di, brother of the elder Lorenzo di San Severino, whom he assisted in the fresco in San Giovanni Battista, at Urbino, dated 1416.
SAN SEVERINO, Lorenzo di, was born in 1374. In 1416 he and his brother Jacopo decorated the oratory of San Giovanni Battista at Urbino with frescoes, (which still remain, though much defaced by time,) representing scenes from the life of St. John the Baptist, and the Crucifixion. The latter is inscribed, " M.O.C.C.C.X.V.I. die xvii. Julii. Laurentius. de. Santo. Severino. et. Jacobus, frater. ejus. hoc. opus, fecerunt."
SAN SEVERINO, Lorenzo di, another artist ot the same name, and supposed to be a son of Lorenzo. Three works by him exist, dated from 1481 to 1483 ; the first is in the sacristy of a church at Pansola near Macerata; the second is a fresco in the collegiate church of Sarnano ; and the third is a panel in the National Gallery, representing the Marriage of St. Catharine, with four saints. The last picture is signed Laurentius II Severinaspisit.
SANSONE, II. See Mabchesi, Giuseppe.
SANTA CROCE, Francesco di Simone da, some- times called Eizo, was bom in the village of Santa Croce in the latter part of the 15th century. In his youth he went to Venice, and is thought to have been a pupil of Carpaccio or Previtali, both of whose styles he greatly afiiects, though in a picture of the ' Madonna aiid Saints' now in the church of S. Pietro Martire, Murano, he signs him- self a pupil of Bellini. His earliest known work is the 'Annunciation,' painted in 1.504 for the church of S. Spino, near Croce, and his latest the altar- piece of the Madonna and six Saints in the church of Chirignano, near Mestre. Pictures by him may be found in the Lochis Carrara Gallery, Bergamo, which possesses three examples, and in the Berlin Gallery. An ' Epiphany ' and 'Noli MeTangere' are in the Venice Academy. The date 1541 occurs upon one of his pictures (an altar-piece in a village church near Mestre), but its authenticity is not beyond dispute. The latest year anterior to it is 1529.
SANTA CROCE, Girolamo da, a relative of Francesco da Santa Croce, was born in the early part of the 16th century. He is said to have been a pupil of Bellini, and to have painted at Venice from 1520 (which is the date of the altar-piece in the church of San Silvestro, an enthroned St. Thomas k Becket between St. John the Baptist and St. Thomas) to 1549, when he completed the ' Last Supper ' at San Martino. In 1527 he painted the ' Charity of S. Martin ' for the church of Luvigliano, near Padua: and in 1532 he executed fourteen frescoes representing scenes in the life of St. Francis of Afsisi, in the Scuola di Francesco della Vigna, Venice, which have now vanished.
The convent church still contains a fresco of the-
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