Pingebat docte Zeusis, condehat et aedes
Nicon; Pan capripes, fistula prima tua est.
Non tamen ex vobis mecum certaverit ullus
Quae tres fecistis, unicus haec facio.
This master died in 1461,[1] having added new beauties to the art of miniature-painting, as is manifest from all his works, and further evidence of which will be found in certain examples from his hand, in our book of drawings- His manner was afterwards imitated by Girolamo Padovano,[2] in the miniatures of certain books, which he adorned for Santa Maria Nuova in Florence,[3] as it was by Gherardo, a Florentine miniaturist, and by Attavante, who was also called Vante.[4] Of the latter, mention has been made elsewhere, more particularly of his works now preserved in Venice, respecting which I have carefully inserted a notice, sent to me by certain Venetian gentlemen, for whose satisfaction, since they had taken the pains to collect all they sent me, I have been willing to relate the whole as they wrote it, and the rather, as I had not the opportunity of forming a judgment from actual inspection.
THE FLORENTINE MINIATURE PAINTER, GHERARDO.
[born... —was still working in the early years of the sixteenth century.]
Of all the enduring works performed by means of colour there is none better calculated to resist the attacks of air and water than mosaic; and well was this known to the elder
- ↑ Obviously an error of the copyist, or press, for 1491.
- ↑ Girolamo of Padua is also called Del Santo.— See the Guida di Padova, published for the Scientific Association, in 1842.
- ↑ The same causes which have prevented us from ascertaining whether any works of Don Bartolommeo were yet to be found in the illuminated books now in the church of the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, prevent us from ascertaining whether any by Girolamo Padovano still remain there. —Ed. Flor., 1849.
- ↑ In the Giunti edition, this passage runs thus: “Gherardo, a Florentine miniature painter, who was called Vante,’’ but this is manifestly an omission, which later editions have supplied as above, and we follow their example.
