flourished most excellent masters, and these still abound more than ever. Among those formerly distinguished were Francesco Bonsignori, and Francesco Caroto,[1] both very eminent, and after them came Maestro Zeno,[2] also a Veronese, who painted the picture of San Marino, in Eimini, with two others, all executed with infinite care. But the artist who surpassed all these in the many admirable figures which he portrayed from the life, was II Moro of Verona, or as others call him, Francesco Turbido,[3] by whom there is now a picture in the palace of Monsignor de’ Martini, in Venice; in this work is the portrait of a gentleman of the house of Badovaro, painted in the character of a shepherd, and so truly life-like, that it may bear comparison with any work that has been executed in those parts. A son-in-law of the last-mentioned artist, named Battista d’Angelo,[4] is also very pleasing as a colourist, and so excellent in design, that he may rather be said to surpass the Moro than to remain his inferior: but as it is not my intention to speak at present of the living, it shall suffice me to have said some little in this place of those masters respecting whom, as I before remarked, I have not been able to gather any minute particulars; but thus much I have done to the end that their gifts and merits, whereunto I would fain do more ample justice, may at least receive that little which I am able to render.
THE PAINTER, JACOPO, CALLED L’lNDACO.[5]
[Lived during the latter part of the 15th century, and the first half of the 16th century.]
Jacopo, called l’Indaco, was a disciple of Domenico del Ghirlandajo, and worked in Eome with Pinturicchio: he
- ↑ Of these two painters, Vasari speaks more at length when treating of other Veronese artists at the end of the lives of Fra Giocondo and Liberale, where he calls the first Monsignori, and the second Giovanni Francesco Caroto.
- ↑ Del Pozzo, in his Vite de' Pittori Veronesi, adds nothing to the slight notice of Vasari. The pictures of Zeno (Donato, called Maestro Zeno), here alluded to, are not now-to be found in Rimini.
- ↑ Francesco Turbido is also named among the artists mentioned in the life of Fra Giocondo.
- ↑ Called Battista del Moro.— See life of Fra Giocondo, which follows.
- ↑ Lanzi remarks that this painter is one of those whose fame has ex-
