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lives of the artists.

all his works, was enabled honourably to maintain his con dition of a cavalier to the end of his days.

One of the competitors of Andrea was Lorenzo da Lendinara, who was considered by the people of Padua to be an excellent painter, and executed various works in terra-cotta also, for the church of Sant’ Antonio in that city.^[1] There were besides, some others who flourished at the same time but of no great eminence. With Dario da Treviso and Marco Zoppo, of Bologna, Andrea Mantegna constantly maintained the most friendly relations, having been brought up with them under the discipline of Squarcione. For the Friars Minors, this Marco painted a Loggia in Padua, which serves them for a chapter-house;^[2] and in Pesaro he painted a picture which is now in the new church of San Giovanni Evangelista,^[3] with a portrait of Guido Baldo da Montefeltro, who was at that time captain-general of the Florentines. The Ferrarese painter, Stefano, was also a friend of Mantegna; the works of this artist are few, but all tolerably good. The ornaments of the Sarcophagus of Sant’ Antonio, in Padua, are by his hand; and he likewise painted a Madonna, which is called the Virgin of the Pillar.^[4]

But to return to Andrea; this master built and adorned

↑ Lorenzo Canozo da Lendinara, with his brother Cristoforo, produced admirable Intarsiatura, some of which are happily still in the Sacristy of Sant’ Antonio in Padua; but others, unfortunately, perished in 1747.—See Brandolese, Pitture di Padova, &c., pp. 31, 269. In the Cathedral of Lucca, are other specimens of Intarsia by the same masters; but their finest work of this kind is on the seats around the choir of the cathedral of Modena. —See Morelli, Anonimo. See also Tiraboschi, Blblioteca Modenese, tom. vi. p. 455, et seq.
↑ The Marchese Selvatico declares Vasari to have fallen into a gross error in this assertion, the chapter-house of the Friars Minors having been painted partly by Giotto, and partly by able followers of that school.” He adds that these frescoes were whitened over many years since, but some portions of them had with great pains and labour been freed from the whitewash, when who could have imagined it? ” he asks, in wellfounded amaze, “those Friars who are mad for the candido; on their walls,” that is to say, “took the whitening brush and covered them over again!”
↑ The picture of Marco Zoppo was sold, ‘‘Ah, wretched that we are,” says the grieving Italian, and sent to Berlin, where it still remains.
↑ Still in existence, but sometimes attributed to Fra Filippo. — See Brandolese, ut supra. According to Buruffaldi, the family name of the Stefano here mentioned was Falzagalloni. —See Vite dei Pittori Ferraresi, Ferrara, 1844, tom. i. p. 155.

[1] Lorenzo Canozo da Lendinara, with his brother Cristoforo, produced admirable Intarsiatura, some of which are happily still in the Sacristy of Sant’ Antonio in Padua; but others, unfortunately, perished in 1747.—See Brandolese, Pitture di Padova, &c., pp. 31, 269. In the Cathedral of Lucca, are other specimens of Intarsia by the same masters; but their finest work of this kind is on the seats around the choir of the cathedral of Modena. —See Morelli, Anonimo. See also Tiraboschi, Blblioteca Modenese, tom. vi. p. 455, et seq.

[2] The Marchese Selvatico declares Vasari to have fallen into a gross error in this assertion, the chapter-house of the Friars Minors having been painted partly by Giotto, and partly by able followers of that school.” He adds that these frescoes were whitened over many years since, but some portions of them had with great pains and labour been freed from the whitewash, when who could have imagined it? ” he asks, in wellfounded amaze, “those Friars who are mad for the candido; on their walls,” that is to say, “took the whitening brush and covered them over again!”

[3] The picture of Marco Zoppo was sold, ‘‘Ah, wretched that we are,” says the grieving Italian, and sent to Berlin, where it still remains.

[4] Still in existence, but sometimes attributed to Fra Filippo. — See Brandolese, ut supra. According to Buruffaldi, the family name of the Stefano here mentioned was Falzagalloni. —See Vite dei Pittori Ferraresi, Ferrara, 1844, tom. i. p. 155.

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