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EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
Scriptural subjects, carried the “Roman School”
to Modena.
At this time there was in Ferrara a school of
painters very peculiar in style, distinguished chiefly
by extreme elegance of execution, a miniature-like
neatness in the details, and deep, vigorous, con-
trasted colours—as intense crimson, vivid green,
brilliant white, approximated —a little grotesque in
point of taste, and rather like the very early German
school in feeling and treatment, but with more
grace and ideality. There is a picture in our Na-
tional Gallery by Mazzolino da Ferrara (No. 82),
which will give a very good idea of this style, both
in its beauties and its singularities.
One of these Ferrarese painters, Benvenuto Ga-
rofalo, studied for some time at Rome in the school
of Raphael, but it does not appear that he assisted,
like most of the other students, in any of his works.
He was older than Raphael, and already advanced
in his art before he went to Rome; but while there
he knew how to profit by the higher principles
which were laid down, and studied assiduously ;
with a larger, freer style of drawing, and a certain
elevation in the expression of his heads acquired in
the school of Raphael, he combined the glowing
colour which characterised the first painters of his
native city. There is a small picture by Garofalo
in our National Gallery (No. 81), which is a very
EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
Scriptural subjects, carried the “Roman School”
to Modena.
At this time there was in Ferrara a school of
painters very peculiar in style, distinguished chiefly
by extreme elegance of execution, a miniature-like
neatness in the details, and deep, vigorous, con-
trasted colours—as intense crimson, vivid green,
brilliant white, approximated —a little grotesque in
point of taste, and rather like the very early German
school in feeling and treatment, but with more
grace and ideality. There is a picture in our Na-
tional Gallery by Mazzolino da Ferrara (No. 82),
which will give a very good idea of this style, both
in its beauties and its singularities.
One of these Ferrarese painters, Benvenuto Ga-
rofalo, studied for some time at Rome in the school
of Raphael, but it does not appear that he assisted,
like most of the other students, in any of his works.
He was older than Raphael, and already advanced
in his art before he went to Rome; but while there
he knew how to profit by the higher principles
which were laid down, and studied assiduously ;
with a larger, freer style of drawing, and a certain
elevation in the expression of his heads acquired in
the school of Raphael, he combined the glowing
colour which characterised the first painters of his
native city. There is a small picture by Garofalo
in our National Gallery (No. 81), which is a very