after having long borne with infinite patience the brutalities and absurdities of Giovan-Antonio, who was truly worthy of that name of Mattaccio, or Arch-fool, which was given to him, as we have said, by the fathers of Monte Oliveto.
The Sienese Riccio,[1] a tolerably able and experienced painter, who was a disciple of Giovan-Antonio, took the daughter of his master, who had been very carefully and respectably brought up by her mother, for his wife, and became heir to[2] all that his father-in-law had left in matters of art. This Riccio has produced many commendable works in Siena and elsewhere; in the cathedral for example there is a chapel to the left as you enter the church, decorated with paintings and stucco-work, by his hand. He is now in Lucca, where he has already executed many excellent works, and continues to do so.
There was also a disciple of Razzi who was called Giomo del Mattaccio, but as he died young and could give but slight evidence of his genius and acquirements, it does not need that I should speak of him further.[3]
Giovan-Antonio died in the year 1554,[4] when he had attained his seventy-fifth year.
THE FLORENTINE PAINTER AND ARCHITECT, BASTIANO,
CALLED ARISTOTILE DA SAN GALLO.
[born 1581—died 1551.]
When Pietro Perugino, then an old man, was painting the picture for the high altar of the Servites, in Florence, a
- ↑ Bartolommeo Neroni, or Negroni, called Maestro Riccio the Sienese, was an architect as well as painter. His works have been engraved at Rome by Andrea Andreini of Mantua.— Bollari.
- ↑ Giomo is a contraction for Girolamo. Orlandi, Abbecedario Piltoricc> has mistaken this Giomo, who died before he had given any evidence of his ability, for that Girolamo del Pacchia, who was capable of being the competitor of Razzi.
- ↑ Michel Angelo Anselmi of Siena, Rustico, an excellent painter of grottesche, and Lo Scalabrino, who, according to Lanzi, was “a man of genius and a poet,” are likewise enumerated among the disciples of this master.
- ↑ The Sienese, Signor Ettore Romagnoli, has discovered documents in his native city from which it would appear that Giovan Antonio Razzi died on the 14th of February, in the year 1549. —Ed. Flor., 1832-8.
