of Our Lady, Rondinello depicted that of Sant’ Alberto, a brother of their order; the head of the Saint is extremely beautiful, and the whole work very highly commended.[1]
Benedetto Coda of Ferrara was also among the disciples of Giovanni, although he did not greatly profit thereby: this artist dwelt in Rimini, where he painted many pictures, he left behind him a son called Bartolommeo, who pursued the same vocation.[2] It is said that Giorgione da Castelfranco also studied the art in his earliest years under Giovanni, as did many others from the March of Treviso, as well as from Lombardy; but of these I need not make further mention.[3]
Giovanni Bellini died of old age when he had completed his ninetieth year, leaving an undying memorial of his name in the works which he had executed in Venice and other parts,[4] he was honourably buried in the same church and in the same tomb wherein he had deposited his brother Gentile; nor were there wanting in Venice those who, by sonnets and epigrams, sought to do him honour after his death, as he had done honour to himself and his country during his life. At the same period, when the Bellini were flourishing, or a short time before, Giacomo Marzone painted many pictures in Venice, among others is a figure of the Virgin, bearing a palm in her hand, which he painted for the chapel of the Assumption in the church of Santa Lena. Our Lady is accompanied by San Benedetto, Santa Lena,[5] and San
- ↑ Of Niccolo Rondinelli and his works, Vasari speaks more at length in the life of Jacopo Palma. Certain paintings bearing the name of Domenico Rondinelli, are suspended in the Presbytery of San Domenico at Ravenna, but no work by Rondinelli is now to be found in the cathedral of that city, nor yet in the church of St. John.
- ↑ See Lanzi, English Edition, vol. iii. p. 27. See also Baruffaldi, Vite de' Pittori Ferraresi.
- ↑ That Vasari has not here made mention of Titian, is to be attributed to haste or forgetfulness. In the life of that artist he does not omit to record that he also was among the disciples of Giovanni Bellino. —Ed. Flor. 1849.
- ↑ One of the last of Giovanni’s labours was a Bacchanal, executed for the Duke Alfonzo, of Ferrara; this he left unfinished, and it was completed by Titian, in whose life mention is made of it by Vasari. See Ridolfi, Le Meraviglie dell’ Arte, &c, This admirable work was at a later period in the possession of the Aldobrandino family, and, from the palace of that house in Rome, was transferred to that of Cardinal Cammuccini, who is said to have sold it for transmission to America.
- ↑ St. Helena.
