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THE BRIDGEWATER GALLERY. 97
Italianised into Giacomo Cortese, and II Borgognone. He studied
and painted at Rome.]
6 A Grand Landscape —Finely composed, but some-
what heavy in the treatment. Such pictures of the master
are extremely rare, for he was a battle painter by profession.
C. 3 ft. by 4 ft. 2 in.
7 A Combat of Cavalry.
The companion-
8 A Charge of Cavalry—near the walls of a fortified
town. C. 15 in. by 2 ft. 10 in.
CALVERT (Denys), b. 1555; d. 1619.
[This painter, called in Italy Dionisio Fiamingo (Dennis the Flem-
ing,) was of Antwerp, but passed nearly the whole of his life at
Bologna, and is sometimes styled the founder of the Carracci school,*
but this is hardly correct. Domenichino, Guido, and Albano, all
studied under him, but quitted him for the instruction of Ludovico
Carracci, whose principles they adopted.]
9 The Entombment.f c. i ft. 5| in. by i ft. 2 in.
CARRACCI (The). Bologna School.
[These painters, at a time when art was on the decline, regene-
rated it in some measure, and founded a school at Bologna, which the
German critics distinguish as the “ Eclectic.” They professed to
work on a system which should combine the study of the antique
with the study of nature, and add thereto the different merits of the
most celebrated schools; the drawing and expression of the Italian
and Roman schools, the colouring of the Venetians, the chiaroscuro
and morbidezza of Correggio. This seemed to promise well; it is
just what all academies aim to teach; but the result of this system,
even in the palmy days of the Bologna school, has been an inferior
style of art. Great technical excellence, but a want of singleness and
* See James’s History of the Italian Schools.
+ This is the same picture which in Young’s Catalogue of the Stafford Gal-
lery is attributed to Daniel di Volterra.
F
Italianised into Giacomo Cortese, and II Borgognone. He studied
and painted at Rome.]
6 A Grand Landscape —Finely composed, but some-
what heavy in the treatment. Such pictures of the master
are extremely rare, for he was a battle painter by profession.
C. 3 ft. by 4 ft. 2 in.
7 A Combat of Cavalry.
The companion-
8 A Charge of Cavalry—near the walls of a fortified
town. C. 15 in. by 2 ft. 10 in.
CALVERT (Denys), b. 1555; d. 1619.
[This painter, called in Italy Dionisio Fiamingo (Dennis the Flem-
ing,) was of Antwerp, but passed nearly the whole of his life at
Bologna, and is sometimes styled the founder of the Carracci school,*
but this is hardly correct. Domenichino, Guido, and Albano, all
studied under him, but quitted him for the instruction of Ludovico
Carracci, whose principles they adopted.]
9 The Entombment.f c. i ft. 5| in. by i ft. 2 in.
CARRACCI (The). Bologna School.
[These painters, at a time when art was on the decline, regene-
rated it in some measure, and founded a school at Bologna, which the
German critics distinguish as the “ Eclectic.” They professed to
work on a system which should combine the study of the antique
with the study of nature, and add thereto the different merits of the
most celebrated schools; the drawing and expression of the Italian
and Roman schools, the colouring of the Venetians, the chiaroscuro
and morbidezza of Correggio. This seemed to promise well; it is
just what all academies aim to teach; but the result of this system,
even in the palmy days of the Bologna school, has been an inferior
style of art. Great technical excellence, but a want of singleness and
* See James’s History of the Italian Schools.
+ This is the same picture which in Young’s Catalogue of the Stafford Gal-
lery is attributed to Daniel di Volterra.
F