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EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
gods and goddesses, fauns, satyrs, nymphs, Cupids,
Cyclops, Titans, in a style as remote from that of
Raphael as can well be imagined, and yet not
destitute of a certain grandeur.
Primaticcio, Nicolo del Abate, Rosso,
and others who worked with them, are designated
in the history of art as the “ Fontainebleau School,”
of which Primaticcio is considered the chief.*
Giovanni da Udine, who excelled in painting
animals, flowers, and still life, was Raphael’s chief
assistant in the famous arabesques of the Vatican.
Perino del Vaga, another of Raphael’s scho-
lars, carried his style to Genoa, where he was
chiefly employed; and Andrea di Salerno, a
far more charming painter, who was at Rome but a
short time, has left many pictures at Naples, nearer
to Raphael in point of feeling than those of other
scholars who had studied under his eye for years :
Andrea seems also to have been allied to his
master in mind and character, for Raphael parted
from him with deep regret.
Polidoro Caldara, called from the place of
his birth Polidoro da Caravaggio, was a poor boy
who had been employed by the fresco painters in
the Vatican to carry the wet mortar and afterwards
to grind their colours : he learned to admire, then
* The frescoes executed by these painters in the palace of
Fontainebleau have lately been restored with admirable suc-
cess by M. Alaux, a French painter of eminence.
EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
gods and goddesses, fauns, satyrs, nymphs, Cupids,
Cyclops, Titans, in a style as remote from that of
Raphael as can well be imagined, and yet not
destitute of a certain grandeur.
Primaticcio, Nicolo del Abate, Rosso,
and others who worked with them, are designated
in the history of art as the “ Fontainebleau School,”
of which Primaticcio is considered the chief.*
Giovanni da Udine, who excelled in painting
animals, flowers, and still life, was Raphael’s chief
assistant in the famous arabesques of the Vatican.
Perino del Vaga, another of Raphael’s scho-
lars, carried his style to Genoa, where he was
chiefly employed; and Andrea di Salerno, a
far more charming painter, who was at Rome but a
short time, has left many pictures at Naples, nearer
to Raphael in point of feeling than those of other
scholars who had studied under his eye for years :
Andrea seems also to have been allied to his
master in mind and character, for Raphael parted
from him with deep regret.
Polidoro Caldara, called from the place of
his birth Polidoro da Caravaggio, was a poor boy
who had been employed by the fresco painters in
the Vatican to carry the wet mortar and afterwards
to grind their colours : he learned to admire, then
* The frescoes executed by these painters in the palace of
Fontainebleau have lately been restored with admirable suc-
cess by M. Alaux, a French painter of eminence.