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162 GIOVANNI BUONCONSIGLIO
bright green and yellow in the costume of the Mag-
dalen.
A feeling of the most intense, oppressive sorrow
pervades the whole scene ; in this powerful rendering
of the feeling as well as in the vulgar types of the
figures, the picture shows a certain kinship to Rem-
brandt’s art. What is, however, the most striking
feature of this painting is the grand composition as
considered merely from the point of view of linear
beauty ; it is as marvellous as it is unconventional.1
1 Vicenza, Museo Civico, Sala V., No. 22. The Virgin wears
a light blue tunic and a dark blue mantle. The Magdalen is clad
in a low-necked dress of gold brocade with slashed sleeves and
trimmed with pearls, a chocolate brown gown and a green mantle.
John the Evangelist wears a light blue tunic and a vermilion mantle.
Signed on a cartellino below to the left
loANES • BONICHO | SILIJ * P * | ' MaRESCHALCO '
On wood. 1.77 X 1.60. Much damaged by the scaling of the colour.
The beautifully proportioned frame is of the epoch and painted by
Buonconsiglio with friezes (grey ornaments on greenish blue ground),
which are finely in keeping with the picture. Below on either side the
Nievo arms. Mentioned by Boschini (Z gioieli pittoreschi, p. 90) and
Mosca (op. cit. i. 5) as being above the altar of the third chapel to the
right in San Bartolomeo. It is probably merely fortuitous that in the
fine Pietd by Antonio Begarelli in San Pietro at Modena (1544-46) the
lines are quite similar to those in Buonconsiglio’s group. The analogy
deserves at any rate to be pointed out. Ph. Alinari.—Above the Pietd
there was at San Bartolomeo a fat and coarse half-length of St. Catherine
between two small tondi representing the Annunciation, all by Buon-
consiglio, and beautiful pieces of colouring. These are also now in the
Museo Civico of Vicenza. (St. Catherine, Sala V. No. 21. The Saint
stands, facing us, her left hand resting on a fragment of a wheel and her
raised right holding a palm-branch. She is clad in a dark green tunic with
slashed sleeves and favours and a dark red mantle lined with gold brocade ;
a string, adorned with a large ruby and pearls is tied round her loose
hair. Greenish blue background. On wood. 0.68 X 0.57. Tondi
with Annunciation, Sala V. Nos. 14, 15. The Virgin, in crimson
tunic, dark green mantle and white kerchief, is at her prie-dieu with
clasped hands. Gabriel, clad in yellow, crimson and green, holds in
the left hand a branch and raises the right in salutation. Both pictures
have greyish green backgrounds and are much worm-eaten. Diameter
bright green and yellow in the costume of the Mag-
dalen.
A feeling of the most intense, oppressive sorrow
pervades the whole scene ; in this powerful rendering
of the feeling as well as in the vulgar types of the
figures, the picture shows a certain kinship to Rem-
brandt’s art. What is, however, the most striking
feature of this painting is the grand composition as
considered merely from the point of view of linear
beauty ; it is as marvellous as it is unconventional.1
1 Vicenza, Museo Civico, Sala V., No. 22. The Virgin wears
a light blue tunic and a dark blue mantle. The Magdalen is clad
in a low-necked dress of gold brocade with slashed sleeves and
trimmed with pearls, a chocolate brown gown and a green mantle.
John the Evangelist wears a light blue tunic and a vermilion mantle.
Signed on a cartellino below to the left
loANES • BONICHO | SILIJ * P * | ' MaRESCHALCO '
On wood. 1.77 X 1.60. Much damaged by the scaling of the colour.
The beautifully proportioned frame is of the epoch and painted by
Buonconsiglio with friezes (grey ornaments on greenish blue ground),
which are finely in keeping with the picture. Below on either side the
Nievo arms. Mentioned by Boschini (Z gioieli pittoreschi, p. 90) and
Mosca (op. cit. i. 5) as being above the altar of the third chapel to the
right in San Bartolomeo. It is probably merely fortuitous that in the
fine Pietd by Antonio Begarelli in San Pietro at Modena (1544-46) the
lines are quite similar to those in Buonconsiglio’s group. The analogy
deserves at any rate to be pointed out. Ph. Alinari.—Above the Pietd
there was at San Bartolomeo a fat and coarse half-length of St. Catherine
between two small tondi representing the Annunciation, all by Buon-
consiglio, and beautiful pieces of colouring. These are also now in the
Museo Civico of Vicenza. (St. Catherine, Sala V. No. 21. The Saint
stands, facing us, her left hand resting on a fragment of a wheel and her
raised right holding a palm-branch. She is clad in a dark green tunic with
slashed sleeves and favours and a dark red mantle lined with gold brocade ;
a string, adorned with a large ruby and pearls is tied round her loose
hair. Greenish blue background. On wood. 0.68 X 0.57. Tondi
with Annunciation, Sala V. Nos. 14, 15. The Virgin, in crimson
tunic, dark green mantle and white kerchief, is at her prie-dieu with
clasped hands. Gabriel, clad in yellow, crimson and green, holds in
the left hand a branch and raises the right in salutation. Both pictures
have greyish green backgrounds and are much worm-eaten. Diameter