. The painters of the school of Ferrara. ased in a frame richly decorated by BartolommeoBonascia/ The picture, with its rich colouring, its bas-reliefs, its putti making music, and its types, is stronglyreminiscent of Costa; and it is highly probable that,after learning the rudiments of painting from his ownfather at Modena, Pellegrino studied under Costa andFrancia at Bologna. According to Vasari, Pellegrino in later life went toRome, and worked under Raphael in the decorationsof the Loggie of the Vatican. He would seem tohave executed frescoes in various Roman churches, ofwhich no traces now
. The painters of the school of Ferrara. ased in a frame richly decorated by BartolommeoBonascia/ The picture, with its rich colouring, its bas-reliefs, its putti making music, and its types, is stronglyreminiscent of Costa; and it is highly probable that,after learning the rudiments of painting from his ownfather at Modena, Pellegrino studied under Costa andFrancia at Bologna. According to Vasari, Pellegrino in later life went toRome, and worked under Raphael in the decorationsof the Loggie of the Vatican. He would seem tohave executed frescoes in various Roman churches, ofwhich no traces now remain. After Raphaels death,he returned to Modena, where, in 1523, he wasassassinated by the relations of a certain GiulianoBastardi, whom his son had killed in a street brawl.^ Michele Coltellini, or Cortellini, is a very inferiorFerrarese painter of the same epoch, who had probably 1 Cronaca Modcnae dl Tommasino de Bianchi^ I. p. 64. Theframe had been made twelve years before. 2 Vasiu-i, iV. pp. G50, 651 ; Venturi, op. cit., p. Anderson Munari -MADONNA AND CHILDFerrara Tu/uce pa(/e 134 MICHELE COLTELLINI 135 studied under Lorenzo Costa. The picture in fivecompartments at Ferrara, formerly attributed to Costa,is a feeble and somewhat archaic production, in whichthe little episode of St. Anthony and St. Paul dividinga loaf of bread has alone a certain naive figures are bony, flat, and badly propor-tioned ; his colouring usually poor. A Death of theBlessed Virgin, signed and dated 1502, has passedfrom the Santini collection into the public galleryof Bologna; a picture of the risen Christ with adoringSaints, painted during the pestilence of 1503, pestistempore,^ is at Berlin. The least unattractive ofColtellinis works is the Madonna and Child withSt. Catherine, St. Michael, St. Jerome, and the Baptist,of 1506, formerly in the Santini collection, in whichthe types and general compostion imitate Costa withsome success, and show, too, t
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