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CHAPTER VII.
DIRECTIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF GIOVANNI BATISTA ARMENINO.
OF ARMENINO.
Giovanni Batista Armenino was born in Faenza, about 1530. He
was destined for the medical profession. He was sent to a public
school, where he was taught Latin and Greek. While pursuing his
studies, Figurino da Faenza (who had been assisting Giulio Romano
at Mantua), returned to his native country, and the young Armenino,
captivated by seeing him work, and hearing his encomiums on the
art, was immediately siezed with the wish to study painting. It is
not known whether he received lessons from Figurino, but when he
went to Rome, in 1550, he already drew well and rapidly. At Rome
he studied the works of Polidoro da Caravaggio, and the antique, and
being seen by two French students of sculpture, copying a frieze of
Polidoro’s, they took him into their house, in order to make drawings
for them. He studied and copied the Last Judgment, of Michael
Angelo, in company with Michael Angelo da Norcia and Barto-
lommeo di Arezzo,a with the latter of whom he studied anatomy.
He remained in Rome seven years, continually copying the antique
and the best pictures. After leaving Rome he went to Milan, where
he assisted Bernardino Campi, with whom he remained some months.
He afterwards visited Mantua, Parma, Piacenza, Florence, Genoa,
Venice, Ferrara, Ravenna, Pesaro, &c. After travelling over Italy,
for nine years, and examining all the best works of art, he changed
his profession and his dress, and became a friar and a priest.
Although he abandoned the practice of the art, he was still useful to
those who exercised it, by collecting, in a single volume, all the most
important precepts of the art, which he had observed in his travels,
or which had been communicated to him by skilful masters. From
the period of his becoming a priest, nothing more is known of him,
except that it is supposed he was living in 1587, when his “ Golden
a Probably Bartolommeo Torre, who fell a victim to a contagious disease,
caught in the pursuit of his anatomical studies at the age of 25. Ticozzi.
DIRECTIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF GIOVANNI BATISTA ARMENINO.
OF ARMENINO.
Giovanni Batista Armenino was born in Faenza, about 1530. He
was destined for the medical profession. He was sent to a public
school, where he was taught Latin and Greek. While pursuing his
studies, Figurino da Faenza (who had been assisting Giulio Romano
at Mantua), returned to his native country, and the young Armenino,
captivated by seeing him work, and hearing his encomiums on the
art, was immediately siezed with the wish to study painting. It is
not known whether he received lessons from Figurino, but when he
went to Rome, in 1550, he already drew well and rapidly. At Rome
he studied the works of Polidoro da Caravaggio, and the antique, and
being seen by two French students of sculpture, copying a frieze of
Polidoro’s, they took him into their house, in order to make drawings
for them. He studied and copied the Last Judgment, of Michael
Angelo, in company with Michael Angelo da Norcia and Barto-
lommeo di Arezzo,a with the latter of whom he studied anatomy.
He remained in Rome seven years, continually copying the antique
and the best pictures. After leaving Rome he went to Milan, where
he assisted Bernardino Campi, with whom he remained some months.
He afterwards visited Mantua, Parma, Piacenza, Florence, Genoa,
Venice, Ferrara, Ravenna, Pesaro, &c. After travelling over Italy,
for nine years, and examining all the best works of art, he changed
his profession and his dress, and became a friar and a priest.
Although he abandoned the practice of the art, he was still useful to
those who exercised it, by collecting, in a single volume, all the most
important precepts of the art, which he had observed in his travels,
or which had been communicated to him by skilful masters. From
the period of his becoming a priest, nothing more is known of him,
except that it is supposed he was living in 1587, when his “ Golden
a Probably Bartolommeo Torre, who fell a victim to a contagious disease,
caught in the pursuit of his anatomical studies at the age of 25. Ticozzi.