Pisano gave evidence of that excellence in art to which he afterwards attained. Finally, having reached a good old age, he departed to a better life.[1]
Gentile da Fabriano, after having executed many works in Città di Gastello,[2] became at length paralytic, and fell into such a state of weakness, that he could no more produce any thing of value. Ultimately he died from the exhaustion of age, having reached the term of eighty years.[3]
The portrait of Pisano[4] I have not been able to discover in any place whatsoever. Both these artists drew exceedingly well, as may be seen from the drawings preserved in our book.[5]
THE FLORENTINE PAINTERS PESELLO AND FRANCESCO PESELLI.
[Flourished about 1390,—died after 1457.]
[born 1426—died 1457.]
It rarely happens that the disciples of distinguished artists, if they observe the precepts of those masters, do not themselves become very eminent; or if they do not surpass their instructors, they are at least, for the most part, found to resemble, and even equal them on all points. The earnest zeal of imitation, with assiduity in study, lends us
- ↑ In the first edition of Vasari, the author closes his short notice of Vittore Pisano, with the remark, that he painted in the Campo Santo of Pisa; but this assertion he withholds from his second edition, most probably because he could not authenticate the report. No vestige of a work by Pisano is to be found among those that enrich the Campo Santo.
- ↑ No trace of these works now remains.
- ↑ When the following lines were written to his memory:— “Hie pulchre novit varies miscere, colores: Pinxit et in variis urbibus Italise.”
- ↑ For a minute account of the medals executed by this artist, see the Micseo Mazzuchelliano, See also the Tresor de Numismatique et de Glyptique, &c., of Lenormant. Paris, 1834.
- ↑ In the Royal Gallery of Berlin, is a picture by Gentile da Fabriano of the Virgin, enthroned, and holding the Divine Child, with Santa Caterina, and San Niccolo beside her. There was also one in the collection of the late Mr, Young Ottley. See Waagen, Kunstwerke und Künstler in England, Vol. i. p. 398.
