. The painters of the school of Ferrara. rest art/ ^ In the inscriptionon this and on the Berlin Holy Family (andnowhere else in his extant works), the painter signshimself simply Francia, without the usual qualifica-tion of Aurifex. Somewhat later, but still very early,is the little St. George formerly attributed toErcole Grandi, in the Corsini gallery; a delightfullynaive work with more atmosphere, and somewhat freerin technique. The Holy Family just mentioned, at Berlin, issigned in an elegiac couplet:— Bartholomei sumptu Blanchini maxima Matrum,Hie vivit manibus, Francia, picta tuis. ^ Thi
. The painters of the school of Ferrara. rest art/ ^ In the inscriptionon this and on the Berlin Holy Family (andnowhere else in his extant works), the painter signshimself simply Francia, without the usual qualifica-tion of Aurifex. Somewhat later, but still very early,is the little St. George formerly attributed toErcole Grandi, in the Corsini gallery; a delightfullynaive work with more atmosphere, and somewhat freerin technique. The Holy Family just mentioned, at Berlin, issigned in an elegiac couplet:— Bartholomei sumptu Blanchini maxima Matrum,Hie vivit manibus, Francia, picta tuis. ^ This Bartolommeo Bianchini was a young Bolognesenobleman who had devoted himself to letters, and hadstudied at the University under two famous humanists,the elder Filippo Beroaldi and Antonio Codro Urceo,whose lives he wrote. A great friend of scholars, a J Ilulian FalnUrs, I. pp. 194, 195 (Miss Ffoulkes trausl.).« •* At the charge of Bartolommeo Bianchini, the greatest ofMotherg here lives, painted, Francia, by thy hands. • • •. Ainhr-ini Franc IA ST. GKOKGE ((irsiiii (;.illory Ili/dVC JXti/c gd FRANCESCO RAIBOLINI 8t collector of antiquities, and a keen connoisseur of art,he gave promise in his youth of high achievement,which was never quite fulfilled. The only works ofhis that have come down to us are the two biographicalsketches just mentioned, one of which—that of AntonioCodro Urceo—is, however, a masterpiece of its kind.^A warm personal affection united him to Francia,who was considerably older than himself. Bianchiniscuriously stiff and unattractive portrait by the lattershand, one of Mr. Saltings bequests to the NationalGallery, is evidently among the artists earliest works,painted about the same time as the Holy Family atBerlin. At the beginning of 1498, Francia painted aportrait of Antonio Codro Urceo, at the requestof Anton Galeazzo Bentivoglio, then Archdeaconof Bologna, a genial and courtly young prelate, whowas the centre of the artistic and literary l
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