. The painters of the school of Ferrara. Duomo thathe became his pupil. After two years at Cremona, beingthen nineteen, Vasari says that he went to Rome. Acurious letter, published by Baruffaldi, purports to havebeen addressed on this occasion by Boccaccino toGarofalos father :— If your son Benvegnu, my honoured messer Pietro,had learned good manners as well as he haspainting, he certainly would not have played me sounseemly a trick. Since his uncle and your brother-in-law, messer Niccolo, died on January 3, he has nottouched a brush, although he knew well upon what afine work he was engaged.
. The painters of the school of Ferrara. Duomo thathe became his pupil. After two years at Cremona, beingthen nineteen, Vasari says that he went to Rome. Acurious letter, published by Baruffaldi, purports to havebeen addressed on this occasion by Boccaccino toGarofalos father :— If your son Benvegnu, my honoured messer Pietro,had learned good manners as well as he haspainting, he certainly would not have played me sounseemly a trick. Since his uncle and your brother-in-law, messer Niccolo, died on January 3, he has nottouched a brush, although he knew well upon what afine work he was engaged. But this is nothing. Hehas gone away without saying a word, and I know notwhither. I had procured work for him, but he has leftit all unfinished, and has gone away, leaving all histhings with me, as also the belongings of messerNiccolo. It may serve you as a clue to finding himthat, if he is to be believed, he said he wanted to seeRome. It may be that he has gone to that city, andit is ten days since he set out, in such great cold and. .ititli rsiin Benvenlto Garofalo HEAD OF TIIF: MADt)\NA(La Madonna ck-l Tilastrn) Fciranv 7(i jifi-i />ii/e 1 70 GAROFALO 171 with so much snow that it is unendurable. I kiss yourhands. From Cremona, January 29,1499. Yours asa brother, Boccaccino. ^ ^ It is uncertain whether this is an authentic docu-ment with an apocryphal date attached to it, or (as, onthe whole, seems more probable) a sheer fabricationbased upon Vasaris narrative. In any case, Boccaccinowas himself at Ferrara during these years. The famousmaster of Cremona, whose sacra conversazione in theAccademia at Venice is one of the most fascinatingpictures of the age, was the son of Antonio diBoccaccino, a Cremonese citizen, who worked for theFerrarese court as embroiderer during the last thirtyyears of the fifteenth century. Boccaccino was, per-haps, born at Ferrara, but had served his art apprentice-ship at Venice under either Alvise Vivarini or 1497, having been released
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