. The painters of the school of Ferrara. and her whole countenance and bearingtempt the beholder to believe that the sorceress herselfhas taken upon her this sacred disguise for the con-fusion of the faithful. The fantastic St. John theEvangelist, in the picture from Sta. Maria in Vado atFerrara, records his vision like a court painter about tosing his patron*s praises, or, at the best, one of thoseyoung humanists thronging the halls of the FerrareseStudio, where the professor readeth Plato in theTimaeiLS on feast-days with a very great audience. ^He naturally grew into the old man whom Ariost
. The painters of the school of Ferrara. and her whole countenance and bearingtempt the beholder to believe that the sorceress herselfhas taken upon her this sacred disguise for the con-fusion of the faithful. The fantastic St. John theEvangelist, in the picture from Sta. Maria in Vado atFerrara, records his vision like a court painter about tosing his patron*s praises, or, at the best, one of thoseyoung humanists thronging the halls of the FerrareseStudio, where the professor readeth Plato in theTimaeiLS on feast-days with a very great audience. ^He naturally grew into the old man whom Ariosto*sAstolfo met in the Moon, still taking the part of menof letters in Paradise :— * Gil scrittori amo, e fo il debito mio;Ch al vostro mondo fui scrittore anch* io. » • >> <» Perhaps the finest of Dossos altarpieces is the 1 Letter from Ariosto to Aldus Manutius. Cappelli, LetUre diLodovico Ariosto, lett, I. 2 1 love writers, and so I should, seeing that I, too, was a writeriu your world {Orlando /<tr/o,fo, ixxv. 28).. Aiidiisoii Dosso Dossi MADONNA AND ( IIILD. WITH ST. GEORGE AND ST. MICHAEL Miidena iTo face payt 154 DOSSO AND BATTISTA DOSSI 155 Madonna and Child with St. George and St. Michael,now in the Gallcria Estense at Modena. This splendidpicture is conceived in a more serious spirit than isusual with him, the romantic figure of the St. George,especially, being full of the heroic possibilities andideals of Christian chivalry.^ Another work of sin-gular charm is the Holy Family in the gallery ofthe Capitol, a beautiful and unconventional picture,formerly ascribed to Giorgione, but much damaged byrestoration ; the Blessed Virgin is represented as inter-rupted in reading the prophecies, by the Child, whomthey concern, leaping up from the arms of St. Josephto clasp her neck ; beyond, we see a stormy sky ofclouds over the sea. A fine altarpiece in whichSt. Sebastian is the most prominent figure, ratherdarkened in colour, with expressive but somewhatunrefin
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