vices, depicted as condemned to the extremity of sulFering and sinking into the lowest deeps of hell.[1]
At the same time with Giusto, there w^as a painter of Ferrara, named Stefano, working in Padua, who adorned the chapel and tomb wherein repose the remains of Sant’ Antonio, with numerous paintings, as we have before related.[2] This Stefano also painted the Virgin called Our Lady of the Pillar.[3]
According to what we find related in Filarete, there w^as a painter of Brescia, called Vincenzio,[4] who was held in much esteem at this time, as was also Girolamo Campagnuola, a painter of Padua, and disciple of Squarcione; Giulio the son of Girolamo[5] was likewise a painter, and also worked in Padua, where he executed many admirable pictures, as he did in other places, with copper plate engravings and works in miniature. In the same city of Padua, flourished Niccolò Moreto,[6] who lived to the age of eighty, and as he never ceased to exercise his art until his death, he produced a large number of works. There were besides these I have mentioned, many other painters who belonged to the school of Gentile and Giovanni Bellini; but Vittore Scarpaccia was without doubt the first among them who execaled works of importance. The earliest pictures of this master were painted in the Scuola di Sant’ Ursula, where the principal part of the stories on canvas, representing the life and death of that saint, are by his hand.[7] The labours of this undertaking he conducted with so much skill and assiduity, that he acquired from them the reputation of being an able and experienced master; and this, as it is said, induced the Milanese people to
- ↑ These paintings also have perished, or rather were destroyed, to build a chapel for the Brotherhood of the Battuti della cintura. For various particulars respecting this master see Forster, as cited above.
- ↑ In the life of Mantegna.
- ↑ This work is still in existence. There is a Virgin enthroned, by the hand of this master, in the Brera (Milan).
- ↑ This is Vincenzio Foppa, called by Vasari, in the life of Michelozzi, (vol. i.); and by Filarete, in his Trattato, &c., Vincenzio Zoppa.
- ↑ Of Girolamo Campagnuola, as a painter, and man of letters, some few words have been said in the life of Mantegna, see p. 263,
- ↑ See Lanzi, History of Painting, vol. ii. pp. 12, 13.
- ↑ They now adorn the Academy of the Fine Arts,” remarks the Italian Editor of 1832-8; ‘‘and consist of nine pictures, including that which represents the Glorification of the Saint and her companions.”
