in this there is a building very judiciously executed;[1] and in the same city, in the Sacristy of the Frati Minori, called the “Ca grande,” there is another by the same master, very well drawn and in a very good manner:[2] a similar work is to be seen in San Michele di Murano, a monastery of Camaldoline monks.[3] And in San Francesco della Vigna, which belongs to the Barefooted Friars, (Frati del Zoccolo) there was a picture of the Dead Christ in the old church, which was so beautiful, that having been highly extolled before Louis XL, king of France, he requested the gift of it with so much earnestness, that those monks were compelled to gratify him therewith, however reluctant they were to do so. Another was put into its place with the name of the same Giovanni, but not by any means so beautiful or so well done as the first,[4] and many Believe that this last named was for the most part executed by Girolamo Mocetto, a pupil of Giovanni. There is a picture by this same master in the possession of the Brotherhood of San Girolamo; the figures are small, but the work is very highly esteemed. And in the house of Messer Giorgio Cornaro is a picture equally beautiful, representing the Saviour with Cleophasand Luke.[5] In the above-mentioned hall Giovanni painted another picture, but not at the same time. This contains a story showing the Venetians inviting a Pope,[6] I know not which,
- ↑ Still in its place, and in tolerable preservation. It was taken to Paris in 1797, and was restored to Venice in 1815. There is a picture at Castle Howard, representing the same subject, and bearing the name of Giovanni Bellini, which Dr. Waagen declares to be the “true original of the many copies made from that work.”—Kunstwerke und Künstler in England.
- ↑ This picture is still in the Sacristy of Santa Maria Gloriosa de’ Frari, which formerly belonged to the Friars-Minors, but is now a parish-church. See Zanotto, Guida di Venezia (pel Congresso del 1847).
- ↑ Now in the church of San Pietro e Paolo in Murano.
- ↑ This little picture is still in the church of San Francesco della Vigna, and represents the Virgin enthroned with the Child in her arms.-. She is accompanied by St. John the Baptist, St. Jerome, St. Sebastian, St. Francis D’Assisi, and a pilgrim. The work bears the master’s name, and the date, m.d.vii.
- ↑ In the Berlin Gallery there is a picture with this subject, bearing the signature, “Joannes Bellinus,” with another of the Dead Christ, mourned over by the Virgin and St. John. May not one of these be that of the Casa Cornaro?—Ed. Flor., 1849.
- ↑ Pope Alexander III., who was for some time concealed among the Regular Canons of Sant’ Agostino in the monastery of Santa Maria, as above
