. The painters of the school of Ferrara. ent and quiet in allhis adversities. In his youth he delighted in fencingand in playing the lute, and he was very obliging andboundlessly affectionate in friendships. He was afriend of the painter Giorgione da Castelfranco, ofTitian of Cadore, and of Giulio Romano, and, ingeneral, most amicably disposed to all men connectedwith the art; and I can bear witness thereto, fortwice, when I was at Ferrara in his time, I receivedinfinite kindnesses and courtesies from him. ^ Garo-falo was buried in Santa Maria in Vado. His son,Girolamo di Benvenuto Tisi, more
. The painters of the school of Ferrara. ent and quiet in allhis adversities. In his youth he delighted in fencingand in playing the lute, and he was very obliging andboundlessly affectionate in friendships. He was afriend of the painter Giorgione da Castelfranco, ofTitian of Cadore, and of Giulio Romano, and, ingeneral, most amicably disposed to all men connectedwith the art; and I can bear witness thereto, fortwice, when I was at Ferrara in his time, I receivedinfinite kindnesses and courtesies from him. ^ Garo-falo was buried in Santa Maria in Vado. His son,Girolamo di Benvenuto Tisi, more usually calledGirolamo Garofalo, became a distinguished man ofletters, and wrote the excellent life of Ariosto whichwas first published in 1584, prefixed to the edition ofthe Orlando Furioso brought out by Francesco de**Franceschi in that year at Venice. There has come down to us a group of Ferraresepictures, belonging to the first quarter of the sixteenthcentury, which suggest a master proceeding directly or 1 Vasari, VI. pp. 468, 04 QO C: y. < ORTOLANO 183 indirectly from the school of Lorenzo Costa, whowas influenced slightly by Mazzolino, and who finallytakes a place intermediate between Dosso and recalls Dosso in the brilliant and jewel-likecolouring of his best works, while at times resemblingGarofalo in his types; less imaginative and moreformal than Dosso, he is more expressive and far lessconventional and stereotyped than Garofalo, withwhom, on the whole, he shows greater affinity. Thesepictures are, somewhat hypothetically, ascribed toGiovanni Battista Benvenuti, known as TOrtolano,probably because his father was a market-gardener. Baruffaldi represents Giovanni Battista Benvenuti asthe nephew of the famous architect of the Estensi,Pietro di Benvenuto. He speaks of a book of sketchesmade by the painter from the works of Raphael andBagnacavallo, and of a letter written by him fromBologna to his uncle, both of which are manifestlyspurious. According
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