work there is an arm of the sea, a mountain, and part of a city, with a crowd of persons, the figures very small. Many other works of this artist might be enumerated, but it is sufficient to have mentioned this, which is the best.[1]
Nor did Bartolommeo,[2] of Murano, acquit himself less creditably in the works executed by him, as may be seen among many other instances from the picture which he painted for the altar of San Luigi, in the church of San Giovanni e Polo (Paolo), and wherein he depicted San Luigi seated, and wearing ecclesiastical vestments. San Gregorio, San Bastiano (Sebastian), and San Domenico stand on one side of him. San Niccolo, San Girolamo, and San Rocco on the other: above these are half-length figures of other saints.[3]
The works of Giovanni Mansueti[4] were also very carefully executed, and this artist took great pleasure in the imitation of natural objects, as figures and distant landscapes; he copied the manner of Gentile Bellini with tolerable exactitude, and painted many pictures in Venice. In the Scuola of San Marco,[5] at the upper end of the audience-chamber,
- ↑ This picture is now in the Gallery of the Venetian Academy. The inscription M. Baxit, written on it, has doubtless led our author into the error of making two artists of one and the same person. The Imperial Gallery of Vienna possesses a replica of this work, whereon we have the inscription Marcus Baxaitj, f., &c. It was engraved by David Teniers.—Bottari, and the German translation of Vasari. See p. 340, note (*).
- ↑ In the Gallery of Bologna is a picture executed jointly by Bartolommeo Vivarini and his brother Antonio, which bears the following inscription:—
Anno Domini m.ccccl. Hoc opus inceptum fait Venetiis, et perjectum ah Antonio et Burtholomeo de Murano, etc.
It is described under the No. 205, in the catalogue di G. Giordani.— Ed. Flor., 1832-8. For details respecting this family of artists, see Ridolfi, Maraviglie, &c.; see also Zanotti, as above cited.
- ↑ In the church of San Giovanni e Paolo, there are now three halflength figures only by this master; these are St. Augustine standing between St, Mark and St. John the Baptist. The cartoons for the painted window over the door of the same church were painted bv Bartolommeo. —Ed. Flor., 1832-8.
- ↑ A disciple of Gentile Bellini.— Ibid.
- ↑ It has already been remarked (see p. 157, note ), that the Italian Scuola of the period here in question, was usually a charitable brotherhood or institution for the care of the sick, or of orphan children, for the ransom of Christian prisoners from the infidel, &c., and for other purposes of similar kind.
