Ills youth in Rome, has produced many beautiful works both in figures and landscape.[1] In the city of Orvieto there are two pictures in oil by this artist, they are in the Church oi Santa Maria, which is the Cathedral of that place, and where there are also figures of the Prophets in fresco by Girolamo Muziano, which are exceedingly beautiful. The copper plates which have been executed after his cartoons also give proof of good design;[2] but as this master likewise is still living and in the service of the Cardinal Ippolito da Este, by whom he is employed in the edifices and decorations which that prelate is causing to be executed in Rome, at Tigoli, and in other places, I will say nothing more respecting him in this place.[3]
There has lately returned from Germany the painter Francesco Richino,[4] who is also a Brescian, and who, to say nothing of the many works which he has produced in other places, has executed certain pictures in oil for the abovementioned Church of San Piero Oliveto at Brescia, which are painted with much forethought and evince great care.
The brothers Cristofano and Stefano[5] are also painters of Brescia, where they are in high repute among the artists for the facility with which they execute views in perspective. Among other productions of this kind in Venice is one on the level wood-work or wainscot in Santa Maria dell’ Orto, where they have represented a Corridor with a double range of twisted columns, similar to those of the Porta Santa in Rome; and these columns, being placed on socles which project in full relief, cause that church to have the appearance
- ↑ For the execution of which he was so highly distinguished, that he obtained in Rome the appellation of Girolamo de’ Paesi (landscapes).
- ↑ They were engraved by Cornelius Cort and Niccolò Beatricetto.— Bottari.
- ↑ This master is said to have been so zealous a student, that he would sometimes shave his head, to the end that he might be the less easily persuaded to leave his house. There are works of his not in Rome only, but in the Louvre, at Orvieto, in Dresden, and other places.
- ↑ See Leonardo Cozzando, Ristretto della Storia Bresciano, by whom Richini is said to have been a poet and architect, as well as painter. — Masselli.
- ↑ Cristofano and Stefano Rosa painters in perspective, are mentioned by Ridolfi, Maraviglie dell'Arte, part i. p. 255.
studied colouring under Titian: according to some of the best among our authorities, this artist imitated Michael Angelo in the outline and movement of his figures.
