Timoteo died in the year of our salvation 1524,[1] when he had reached the fifty-fourth year of his age, leaving his country as much enriched by his fame and excellencies, as it was grieved by his loss.[2] He left certain unfinished works in Urbino, and these, having been afterwards completed by others, serve to show, by the comparison, how great the power and ability of Timoteo must have been.[3]
I have several very fine drawings by the hand of this master in my book, and these I have received from his son, the very excellent and amiable Messer Giovanni Maria. They are all of great beauty and merit; among them is a sketch for the portrait of the illustrious Giuliano de' Medici, done with the pen; which was executed by Timoteo at the time when the above-mentioned Giuliano had repaired to the court of Urbino, and to its most renowned University. I have besides a Noli me tangere, and a figure of San Giovanni Evangelista, who is represented asleep, while the Saviour is praying in the Garden.[4] All these works are exceedingly beautiful.[5]
THE SCULPTOR AND ARCHITECT, ANDREA DEL MONTE SANSOVINO.
[born 1460—died 1529.]
Although Andrea di Domenico Contucci of Monte Sansovino, was born of extremely poor parents, his father being a
- ↑ In the Book of the Brotherhood of St. Joseph, to which Timoteo belonged, the death of this master is recorded as having taken place on the 10th of Oct., 1523.
- ↑ Timoteo della Vite left two sons, Giovanni (whom Pungileoni calls Francesco) Maria, and Pietro; the first entered the church, the second became a tolerably clever painter.
- ↑ One of the works of Timoteo, a picture called the Conception namely, painted for the church of the Osservanti in Urbino, is now in the Finacoteca of Munich.
- ↑ Among the drawings in the Florentine Collection of the Uffizj, there are four by Timoteo della Vite, one of which represents Christ in the Garden, with St. John sleeping, as here described.
- ↑ Minute details respecting this master will be found in the Elogio Storico of the Padre Luigi Pungileoni, as cited above.
