The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . h was stopped bylack of resources in the middle of the Council of Flor-ence of 14;!S. The absence of an index renders it in-convenient, and in a critical point of view it leaves an father, who, although the founder of the Paduanschool of painting, possessed but mediocre earliest known work, a Madonna inGlory, was painted when he was seventeen for thechurch of iS. Sofia at Padua. This picture is no longerin existence, but to ju
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . h was stopped bylack of resources in the middle of the Council of Flor-ence of 14;!S. The absence of an index renders it in-convenient, and in a critical point of view it leaves an father, who, although the founder of the Paduanschool of painting, possessed but mediocre earliest known work, a Madonna inGlory, was painted when he was seventeen for thechurch of iS. Sofia at Padua. This picture is no longerin existence, but to judge from his next dated work,a fresco (1452) in the church of the Santo, Padua, thisfirst achievement must have exhibited almost incredi-ble maturity of talent. In 1454 he was employed inthe church of S. Giustina, Padua, where he paintedthe Ancona, which is now in the Brera, at had been commissioned by the Ovetarifamily to decorate the Church of the Eremitani, Padua,and he had deputed a portion of the task to these frescoes, which attest a steady developmentin his manner, he is doubtless best known. The f:/;^,.!^^- \. St. GeorgeAccademia Reale, Venice Bronze Bust by CavalliChurch of S. Andrea, MantuaAndrea Mantegna Baptism of HermogenesChurch of the Eremitani, Padua immensity to be desired. Mansi saw only fourteenvolumes of it pul^lished, the others were finished fromhis notes. In 1748 the savant began to publish thefirst volume of a collection which was presented as asupplement to that of Coleti; the sixth and last volumeof it appeared in 1752. This supplement contains, to-gether with various dissertations, man} recently pub-lished documents, and many unpublished, which werelacking in the previous collections—330 letters ofpopes, 200 new councils, mention of 380 others—be-sides notes. The success of this publication inducedMansi to undertake a recasting of Coleti, with his sup-plement, adding to it documents discovered since histime. Such was t
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