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DOMENICO ZAMPIERI,
CALLED
DOMENICHINO.
DIED 1641. AGED 60.*
The memoirs of this master present a melancholy series of
“ the spurns
“ That patient merit of th’ unworthy takes.”
He was the son of a poor shoemaker, and born in 1581. His first instructor
was Denis Calvart, a Flemish painter at Bologna, and he afterwards obtained
admission into the school of the Caracci, undertaking some menial services in
lieu of the high premium required by those artists. Here he improved by
slow, but profound study; and his extreme youth, his merit, and the suavity
of his manners, obtained him from his fellow pupils the name of “Domeni-
chino.”
After several years passed in this school, he examined at Parma, Reggio,
and Modena, the works of Parmegiano and Corregio, in company with his
most intimate friend Albano, who afterwards introduced him to Annibale
Caracci at Rome. By him Domenichino was soon employed in the Farnese
gallery, where his works attracted the admiration of his master, and the envy
of a host of industrious enemies, who never ceased to persecute him. At
the head of this faction were Lanfranco and Ribera, whose clamorous censure
effectually depreciated the works of Domenichino during his life, and sub-
jected him to perpetual mortifications. Nor has he escaped the severity of
succeeding critics, among whom De Piles, after declaring him in point of
correct design, expression, passion, and the variety and simplicity of the airs
of his heads, equal to Raphael, insists that he was devoid of genius! But
* Bellori.
CALLED
DOMENICHINO.
DIED 1641. AGED 60.*
The memoirs of this master present a melancholy series of
“ the spurns
“ That patient merit of th’ unworthy takes.”
He was the son of a poor shoemaker, and born in 1581. His first instructor
was Denis Calvart, a Flemish painter at Bologna, and he afterwards obtained
admission into the school of the Caracci, undertaking some menial services in
lieu of the high premium required by those artists. Here he improved by
slow, but profound study; and his extreme youth, his merit, and the suavity
of his manners, obtained him from his fellow pupils the name of “Domeni-
chino.”
After several years passed in this school, he examined at Parma, Reggio,
and Modena, the works of Parmegiano and Corregio, in company with his
most intimate friend Albano, who afterwards introduced him to Annibale
Caracci at Rome. By him Domenichino was soon employed in the Farnese
gallery, where his works attracted the admiration of his master, and the envy
of a host of industrious enemies, who never ceased to persecute him. At
the head of this faction were Lanfranco and Ribera, whose clamorous censure
effectually depreciated the works of Domenichino during his life, and sub-
jected him to perpetual mortifications. Nor has he escaped the severity of
succeeding critics, among whom De Piles, after declaring him in point of
correct design, expression, passion, and the variety and simplicity of the airs
of his heads, equal to Raphael, insists that he was devoid of genius! But
* Bellori.