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118 LIVES OF THE ARTISTS.
numbers. It appears to be certain, so far as we can judge.,
that Puccio had very much the manner of his master Giotto,
and was deeply versed in all his methods, which he turned
to very good account in the works he executed, although, as
some assert, he did not live long, having injured his health
by working too much in fresco, which caused his death. The
frescoes, representing passages from the life of St. Martin, in
the same chapel, are said to have been painted by Puccio
Capanna for Cardinal Gentile. Many works of this master
are to be found in different places. In the midst of the
street called Portico, in Assisi, for example, there is a Christ
at the Column by his hand, with the figure of the Virgin be-
tween St. Catherine and St. Clara. In Bologna also there
is a picture in the nave of the church,* representing the
Passion of Christ, with stories from the life of St. Francis ;
besides others which I refrain from enumerating for the sake
of brevity. I will not, however, omit to mention that in
Assisi, where are the greater number of his works, and where
it appears to me that he must have taken part in the paint-
ings of Giotto, I have discovered that they consider him as
their fellow-citizen, and that there are still certain branches
of the Capanna family in that city. The probability seems
to be that Puccio was born in Florence, since he has himself
written to that effect, but that he afterwards married at Assisi,
where his children were born, and where his descendants still
remain. As all this is, nevertheless, of very little importance,
let it suffice us to know that he was a good master.
Ottaviano da Faenza, also a clever painter, was likewise a
disciple of Giotto. He painted many pictures in the church
of St. George at Ferrara, belonging to the monks of Monte
Oliveto ; and in Faenza, where he lived and died, he
painted a figure of the Virgin with St. Peter and St. Paul,
in the arch above the door of San Francesco, with other
works in the same city and in Bologna.
Another disciple of Giotto, who remained with him many
years, and frequently assisted him in his works, was Pace da
Faenza, one of whose paintings in fresco may be seen on the
fapade of San Giovanni-decollato (St. John decapitated) in
* Vasari does not say in what church, but it may be conjectured to
be San Francesco.—Ed. Flor. 1846.
numbers. It appears to be certain, so far as we can judge.,
that Puccio had very much the manner of his master Giotto,
and was deeply versed in all his methods, which he turned
to very good account in the works he executed, although, as
some assert, he did not live long, having injured his health
by working too much in fresco, which caused his death. The
frescoes, representing passages from the life of St. Martin, in
the same chapel, are said to have been painted by Puccio
Capanna for Cardinal Gentile. Many works of this master
are to be found in different places. In the midst of the
street called Portico, in Assisi, for example, there is a Christ
at the Column by his hand, with the figure of the Virgin be-
tween St. Catherine and St. Clara. In Bologna also there
is a picture in the nave of the church,* representing the
Passion of Christ, with stories from the life of St. Francis ;
besides others which I refrain from enumerating for the sake
of brevity. I will not, however, omit to mention that in
Assisi, where are the greater number of his works, and where
it appears to me that he must have taken part in the paint-
ings of Giotto, I have discovered that they consider him as
their fellow-citizen, and that there are still certain branches
of the Capanna family in that city. The probability seems
to be that Puccio was born in Florence, since he has himself
written to that effect, but that he afterwards married at Assisi,
where his children were born, and where his descendants still
remain. As all this is, nevertheless, of very little importance,
let it suffice us to know that he was a good master.
Ottaviano da Faenza, also a clever painter, was likewise a
disciple of Giotto. He painted many pictures in the church
of St. George at Ferrara, belonging to the monks of Monte
Oliveto ; and in Faenza, where he lived and died, he
painted a figure of the Virgin with St. Peter and St. Paul,
in the arch above the door of San Francesco, with other
works in the same city and in Bologna.
Another disciple of Giotto, who remained with him many
years, and frequently assisted him in his works, was Pace da
Faenza, one of whose paintings in fresco may be seen on the
fapade of San Giovanni-decollato (St. John decapitated) in
* Vasari does not say in what church, but it may be conjectured to
be San Francesco.—Ed. Flor. 1846.