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FELTRO— FERRI. 59 is supposed by Lanzi to have been the same as Pietro Luzzo da Feltro, called Zaratta. In the Berlm Museum is an allegorical picture by him, of Peace and War. Andrea di Cosimo Feltrino, also a distinguished decorative painter, was the pupil and assistant of Morto. FERRAMOLA, Fioravante, b, at Brescia, d, 1528. Venetian School. He painted the portrait of Gaston de Foix, in 1512. Pictures in the Carmine: Santa Maria delle Grazie: and other buildings in Brescia. (Panni.) FERRARI, Gaudenzio, b. in Valdu- gia, 1484, d, at Milan, 1549. Lombard School. He was a pupil of Bernardino liuini, at Milan, and studied also under Raphael, in Rome. Lomeizzo, his coun- tryman, enumerates Gaudenzio among the seven greatest painters of modem times. His oil pictures recall forcibly the general character of the Roman School, especially in form ; but his ex- ecution, notwithstanding its elaborate finish, is extremely hard, his colouring cradely positive and inharmonious, and his accessories introduced and treated without taste. He exhibits the execu- tion of the quattrocento painters without their sentiment, and the occasional elaboration of some of his accessories would seem to imply that he set a value on mere imitation, which is rarely met with at so early a period; it is a naturalism without the true apprecia- tion of the local and incidental appear- ances of nature. He was extremely fond of shot-colours. He justly ranks among the great painters of his coun- try, though far from justifying the ab- surd eulogy of Lomazzo. He was also a sculptor. His greatest work is the Cupola of Santa Maria, in Saronno, in imitation of the cupolas of Correggio; but his master-piece is considered the Crucifixion, at Varallo. Works. Turin, the Royal Gallery, a Group lamenting over the dead Christ. Varallo, the Convent of the Minorites, Subjects from the Life of Christ: Cha- pel of the Sacro Monte, the Crucifixion : Santa Maria di Loreto, the Adoration. Milan, Brera, Martyrdom of St. Cathe- rine ; and some frescoes representing the History of Joachim and Anna: Sant' Ambrogio, taking down from the Cross : Santa Maria delle Grazie, the Scourging of Christ; the Ecce Homo; and the Crucifixion. Vercelli, the Conversion of St^ Paul: and in the transept of San Cristoforo, frescoes from the Life of Christ; and of the Virgin. Saronno (near Milan), Cupola, with a glory of Angels. Como, Cathedral, the Sposa- lizio; and Flight into Egypt. Berlin Gallery, a sacred subject; and the por- trait of a Youth. Louvre, St Paul meditating. {Lanzij Bordiga.) FERRARI, Gregobio de', b. at Porto Maurizio, 1644, d, 1726. Ge- noese School. A pupil of Domenico Fiasella, called Sarzana. He studied and copied the works of Correggio, at Parma ; he was a good colourist, more especially in oil. He painted many frescoes at Turin, and at (jrenoa, in the Palazzo Balbi, and other palaces, &c. His son, Lorenzo Abate (1680-1744), painted in a similar style, and acquired equal celebrity. {Batti.) FERRETTI, Gio. Domenico, called D'Imola, b, at Florence, 1692, d. about 1750. Tuscan School. A pupil of Gio. Giosefib del Sole ; he was one of the best fresco-painters of his time. The churches of Florence, Pisa, and Bologna contain many works by him : a cupola at Pistoja is considered his master-piece. ( Lanzi. ) FERRI, Cnto, b, 1634, d, at Rome, 1689. Roman School. The most dis- tinguished scholar of Pietro da Cor- tona, and principal assistant ; he imi- tated the manner of Cortona very closely, and completed some of his works at Rome, and the frescoes in the Pitti Palace, at Florence. Ferri succeeded