. The painters of the school of Ferrara. rtier, to whose picture he refers in one ofhis sonnets.^ Ercole Grandi died in 1535, the sameyear as his master, Costa. Vasari writes : Gli fu comefratello e Jigliuolo insino alT estremo della vita. It has been noticed that no authentic work ofLorenzo Costa exists at Ferrara. Two pictures were,until recently, attributed to him in the public gallerythere; but one of these has been recognised as byPellegrino Munari, and the other, with less certainty,is now ascribed to Michele Coltcllini. Pellegrino Aretusi was a Modenese, the son ofGiovanni Aretusi, a pa
. The painters of the school of Ferrara. rtier, to whose picture he refers in one ofhis sonnets.^ Ercole Grandi died in 1535, the sameyear as his master, Costa. Vasari writes : Gli fu comefratello e Jigliuolo insino alT estremo della vita. It has been noticed that no authentic work ofLorenzo Costa exists at Ferrara. Two pictures were,until recently, attributed to him in the public gallerythere; but one of these has been recognised as byPellegrino Munari, and the other, with less certainty,is now ascribed to Michele Coltcllini. Pellegrino Aretusi was a Modenese, the son ofGiovanni Aretusi, a painter of Modena employed bythe Estensi for painting shields, trappings for tourna-ments, coffers, and the like, in the last years of thefifteenth century. Both father and son, instead of 1 Cf. Venturi, op. cit., pp. 196-198 ; G. Agnelli, Ferrara e Pomposa,pp. 48-52 ; Gruyer, I. pp. 364, 365. Morelli, Italian Faintcrs, 138, was the first to dispute Garofalos authorship and the««^iling to Ercole Grandi. ^ Op. cit., p. Aiuhrson Ercole Crandi POirrUAIT OF A GIKL Campidi>L;lio To face pdf/e 132 PELLEGRINO MUNARI 133 their surname, were called Munari, from a mill atPanzanello rented by the former. As early as 1483,Pellegrino is described by a local poetaster of Modena,Giovanni Maria Parenti, as giovane bcllo e degno ne lapittura} The pictures attributed to him are not veryclearly distinguished from those of his slightly olderfellow-townsman, Francesco Bianchi, whom, as anartistic personality, he somewhat resembles. It iscurious to observe that, in each of the four, the figureof St. Jerome appears. His earliest extant work,according to Signor Venturi, is the Madonna andChild with four Saints in the Museum of Berlin,formerly attributed to the school of Padua, which hasall the characteristics of Ferrarese painting in theQuattrocento. Next to this, if his, would come apicture in the Casa Rangoni at Modena, in which,under the patronage of the Baptist and St. Jerom
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