A history of with a preface by Frank Brangwyn . first Italianartist to paint landscapes as complete works of art. Hewas not wholly ignorant of the art of the Netherlands, andthe Venetian love of landscape was not lost upon him. Hehanded this precious gift to his fellows, and thereby, throughhis school, he prepared the way for Poussin and ClaudeLorraine, and thus, with the Dutchmen, opened the gates tothe supreme achievement of France and England. The school of the Carracci, with its academic vision ofEclecticism, produced several artists. DOMENICHINO1581 - 1641 Domenico Zampieri, b
A history of with a preface by Frank Brangwyn . first Italianartist to paint landscapes as complete works of art. Hewas not wholly ignorant of the art of the Netherlands, andthe Venetian love of landscape was not lost upon him. Hehanded this precious gift to his fellows, and thereby, throughhis school, he prepared the way for Poussin and ClaudeLorraine, and thus, with the Dutchmen, opened the gates tothe supreme achievement of France and England. The school of the Carracci, with its academic vision ofEclecticism, produced several artists. DOMENICHINO1581 - 1641 Domenico Zampieri, better known as Domenichino,was born at Bologna on the 21st of October 1581. Sentas a mere boy to learn the mysteries of the craft of paintingfrom Denis Calvaert, he passed thence into the academy ofthe Carracci. Called to Rome about nineteen by Albano,in whose house he lived for a considerable time, he earlycame to repute. He became one of the assistants to28 • • I ANNIBALE CARRACCI1560 - 1609 SCHOOL OF THE ECLECTICSVIRGIN AND SLEEPING CHILD (Louvre). OF PAINTING Annibale Carracci in painting the frescoes at the Farnese, WHEREINof which the Death of Adonis is his own. WE SEE The altarpiece of the Liberation of St. Peter in S. Pietro THAT, in Vincoli followed; then the fresco lunettes of the Life of ^VEN AS WF DP St. Jerome at Sant Onofrio. The fresco of the Flagellation TLzL SCEND THE of St. Andrew, opposite the fresco by Guido Reni in San /ypHFR Gregorio, brought him great honour in 1608. The frescoes gjj^g qf Afrom the Life of St. Nilus, at Grotta Ferrata, which occupied HILL IThim from 1609 to 1610, prove his command of action, and MAY BEare remarkable for the beauty of some of the types. He ONLY TOpainted with Albano the mythological series at the castle of FINDBassano, and on his return to Rome the frescoes from the GREATERLife of St. Cecilia in S. Luigi de Francesi, which show him HEIGHTS . TO RF at his best. Perhaps the picture of these earlier years bywhich he is be
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