. A history of painting in north Italy; Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Millan, Friuli, Brescia, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century . THE NATIVITY , an altarpiece b; bv Bra-icesco Fiancia, in the Gailory U Bolouca Chap. XVIII. FRANCESCO FRANCIA. 563 the lines of Credi, but with more life and breadth andgrandeur, he gives to his personages a more masculinecharacter and greater expressiveness than he had everdone before, shining as usual in portrait, yet not withoutnun-like or monkish coldness in some parts, and as y-etnot free from rawness in his argentine tints. To thispiece
. A history of painting in north Italy; Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Millan, Friuli, Brescia, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century . THE NATIVITY , an altarpiece b; bv Bra-icesco Fiancia, in the Gailory U Bolouca Chap. XVIII. FRANCESCO FRANCIA. 563 the lines of Credi, but with more life and breadth andgrandeur, he gives to his personages a more masculinecharacter and greater expressiveness than he had everdone before, shining as usual in portrait, yet not withoutnun-like or monkish coldness in some parts, and as y-etnot free from rawness in his argentine tints. To thispiece, which was followed by equally beautiful ones ofa Pieta^ at the museum, and of the Virgin and childwith saints at the Misericordia of Bologna,^ Costafurnished the predella with the adoration of the magi of1499, which gives us the comparative measure of thetwo men and testifies to their common friendship. It is a proof of the popularity which Francia hadacquired that his panels are almost as numerous inmodern galleries as those of del Sarto or Perugino. Evenof those illustrating the period on which we are nowdwelling there are numerous specimens
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