resentment in any other manner, he left Venice immediately, and returned to Padua, where he lived very honourably during the remainder of his life, contenting himself with the works that he had already completed, and with the conviction of being, as he ever was, beloved and respected in his native land. He died at the age of ninety-two,[1] and was buried in the Santo with that distinction which his talents, having done honour to his country as well as himself, had merited. His portrait was sent to me from Padua, by certain friends of mine, who received it, as they inform me, from the most learned and very reverend Cardinal Bembo, a most zealous admirer of the fine arts, as well as highly distinguished for his rich endowments of mind and body, wherein, and for the rarest virtues and talents, he was indeed excellent above all the men of our age.[2]
THE FLORENTINE PAINTER, FRA FILIPPO LIPPI.
[born 1412—died 1469.]
The Carmelite monk. Fra Filippo di Tommaso Lippi, was born at Florence in a bye street called Ardiglione, under
- ↑ Cicognara asserts, but without adducing any proof, that Vellano lived thirty-four years after the death of his master Donatello; this brings the death of the former to 1500 or 1502, accordingly as we adopt the opinion of Bartolommeo Fonzio, who places Donatello’s death in 1466, or that of Matteo Palmieri, who gives the year 1468 as that of his demise.
- ↑ Many -writers, among ivhom are Morelli, Piacenza, and Cicognara,
affirm Andrea Riccio, the Paduan artist of whom Vasari makes so slight
a mention (in the life of Antonello da Messina), but who was in fact an
artist of distinguished merit, to have been a disciple of Vellano. A fine
work of Andrea Riccio, The Tomb of Girolamo and Marcantonio della Torre
namely, was removed from Verona by the French. This is now in Paris.
Riccio was also an architect, and the church of Santa Giustina of Padiia,
commenced in 1502, by Girolamo da Brescia, was completed after his design.
Andrea Riccio died in his native city on the 8th of July, 1532, and was
buried in the cemetery of San Giovanni in Verdara, with the following
inscription:—
Andreae Crispo Briosco Pat. Statuario insigni, cuius opera ad antiquorum laudem proxime accedunt, in primo aeneum candelabrum quod in aede. D. Antonii cernitur, Haeredes pos. Vix. ann. lxii. mens. iii. dies. vii. Obiit viii. indus. Julii m.d. xxxii.
Cicognara has given engravings of his principal works. See Plates xxxv, xxxvi, and xxxvii.
