and nearly all in a very good manner, are by the same artist.
Lattanzio Gambara has given proof of admirable invention herein, as well as in the paintings of the interior; he has also depicted the façade of his own dwelling which is situate between San Benedetto and the Episcopal Palace. In addition to many other works executed in that house, may be mentioned two beautiful portraits by his hand, which I saw there the last time I was in Brescia; these are that of Alessandro Moretto his father-in-law, and a most beautiful head of an old man, with that of his own wife, the daughter of the abovenamed Alessandro; and if all the works of Lattanzio had been equal to those portraits, he might have been accounted among the best masters of our art. But since the number of his pictures is very great, and since he is besides still living, it shall suffice me for the present to have made mention of him thus far.
In Venice and Milan there are numerous works by the hand of Giangirolamo,[1] who is also of Brescia. In the beforementioned house of the Mint at Milan, for example, are four pictures representing Night-pieces and Conflagrations; and in the house of Tommaso da Empoli there is a Nativity of Our Saviour Christ, the time of which is also night, and which is very beautiful:[2] there are besides other works of similar fantasies in which he was an adept; but since he occupied himself principally with matters of that kind, and never undertook any work of importance, we can say nothing more of him than that he was a fanciful and ingenious person, what he has accomplished well meriting to be highly commended.
Girolamo Muziano[3] is also of Brescia, and having passed
- ↑ Girolamo Savoldo, otherwise called Giangirolamo Bresciano. See Ridolfi, Maraviglie, &c., part i. p. 255. See also Paolo Pino (Dialogo della Piltura Veneziana), who places him among the first artists of his time.
- ↑ There is a picture by Savoldo in Berlin which represents a girl hurrying from a fire which is raging among old buildings; this painting bears his signature. His principal work is at Pesaro, the subject is Our Saviour Christ seen in the clouds of heaven; beneath are numerous saints.—Ed. Flor., 1838, and German Translation of Vasari, note.
- ↑ Girolamo Muziano was born at Aquafredda, near Brescia, in 1528; he acquired the first principles of design from Romanino, but subsequently
