A history of with a preface by Frank Brangwyn . emic vision of his time. Helacked the imagination to rid himself wholly from thefetters that the academics had fastened upon art; but hehad much sense of grace and nobility. St. Cecilia alwaysinspired him to his best utterance. Domenichino seems to have had few pupils; andGiambattista Passeri became famous the rather as anexcellent writer on the history of painting. ALBANO 1578-1660 By the time 1600 struck, all was elegance. And thelord of elegance was Francesco Albano. He is all smilesand graciousness. He loved the cheerful subject.
A history of with a preface by Frank Brangwyn . emic vision of his time. Helacked the imagination to rid himself wholly from thefetters that the academics had fastened upon art; but hehad much sense of grace and nobility. St. Cecilia alwaysinspired him to his best utterance. Domenichino seems to have had few pupils; andGiambattista Passeri became famous the rather as anexcellent writer on the history of painting. ALBANO 1578-1660 By the time 1600 struck, all was elegance. And thelord of elegance was Francesco Albano. He is all smilesand graciousness. He loved the cheerful subject. And hewent to mythology as steel to magnet. Venus becamehis goddess ; and he set Venus and her companions insmiling landscapes, attended by flights of little infant Albano, a painting was ever a decorative scheme ; byconsequence, landscape and figures are alike an affair ofdecorative arrangement. Every one plays at being playful; 3° II DOMENICHINO 1581 - 1641 SCHOOL OF THE ECLECTICS ST CECILIA PLAYING UPON A SEVEN-STRINGEDVIOLA-DA-GAMBA (Louvre). OF PAINTING he was not eager enough to insist on their really enjoying WHEREINthemselves. It was all a business of elegance. Most of WE SEEthe great galleries—the Louvre, the Borghese, the Colonna, THAT,the Torlonia Palaces, hold his works. He is well known EVEN ASfor his Infant Christ sleeping on the Cross. Brought forth ^ T>E-by the school of the Carracci, Albano sipped from every ^1M u ltl^ n r i OTHER flower of elegance. SIDE QF A Albanos influence on the gracious art of France in the HILL itseventeen-hundreds was considerable. MAY BE Of his pupils were men who created remakable art, ONLY TOand not the least were Giovanni Battista Mola, Pier FINDFrancesco Mola, Carlo Cignani, and Andrea Sacchi ; GREATERhe grandfathered the art of Carlo Maratta, the pupil of HEIGHTSAndrea Sacchi. TO BE Giovanni Battista Mola was a Frenchman, who LJ-1MmL-L)painted some excellent portraits, free of affectation. PierFrancesco Mola, who c
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