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    GALLE&Y OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN. 17...

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    Ii.—Female Artists. By An Italian.

    tliat and they a hi derived losohical froin anal their ysis predecessors of her manifestations , a patient . study In truth of nature , they ,

    were driven p to p ecclecticism by the conditions of thought and the invincible tendencies of the in which they lived . Yet so

    powerful was their genius , that , age since it was not given them to develop aspect of the idealthereflected it in such majestic

    w any orks new that it almost seemed , to y _Tbe directly reproduced . For instance , the Conmnione di S . Girolamo del Domenichino is worthy

    to rank , with the Transfiguration in the Vatican or the Ascension of Guido Reni in the church of S . Ambrogio in Genoa , where a ray

    of ' divinity seems to play over the features of the Madonna . one The a disci tory ple of f It the alian eccle pain cticism ting boasts of the two Camp distinguished i , the other women of the ,

    Caracci . addressed Sofonisba For a long A to B g time uisciola ernardino , on w the as C authorit amp a disci i , p by le y of o F f rancesco Vasari Giulio , C it Salvia was i ; thoug ti but , a a ht Tuscan letter that

    painter , dated the 28 th of April , 1554 , assures us that she was his , B ernardino th wonder 's , the pup work il : —" of If the from beautiful the work Cremonese which artist we her your e behold il pup

    we w Sofonisb may form a was , an born idea in of Cremona your intellect , about who a . d . are 1530 her , and master _^ , together , etc . , the art of

    for painting with his her . great si Vasari sters work , , w when as , visited ini travelling tiated the at house throug an earl of h y Ital her age y to father into collect , materials Amilcare

    Anguisciola . ( 27 ) Lucia , Europa , and Annamaria , sisters of well Sofonisba skille , d also both acquired in the reputation Latin and as modern artists , languages and Minerva . Two was of

    Lucia's portraits are on record , one of a physician , the second of the Duke of Sessa , governor of Milan . Of _Eiiropa ' s works , we

    have in the church of S . Elena in Cremona a S . Francesco , drawn by Campi , the painting which all her is own ; of a but St . somewhat Andrew

    l timidl eaving his executed Nets . to She follow also Christ painted , the portraits gracefull of y her father and mother y and of her fellow-citizenswhich were sent to the

    Spanish , court many . The chief merit of , Europa ' s pictures is the correctness of the drawing , and the same may be said of Annamaria's .

    But Sofonisba far excelled her sisters and all Bernardino ' s pupils , Battista even Ma Trotti lagavazzo whom , Magnani Lanzi calls , and Bernardino Mainardi ' s best nor can disci w le who except is p

    masterl praised for foreshortening the , contour of his but heads blamed , his for gay the and use brilliant of abrupt style li , g , and hts not his

    sufficientl y y tempered by , shadow , so that some of his pictures seem as if painted on porcelain ; faults which , as we shall see , are not

    found in Sofonisba . The earliest painting of hers on record repreof ( an 27 ) honorable " This house and , " dis he tinguished writes , " of famil Amilcaro y , seems Anguisciola the very home , the li of appy painting father , 20

    as well as of all other accomplishments . '' Yol , XL , p . .

    Galle&Y Of Illustrious Italian Women. 17...

    GALLE _& Y OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN . 175

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 175, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/31/