lance, while a young maiden, who is at some distance, appears to be returning thanks to God and the glorious Virgin, for the succour vouchsafed to her.[1]
It has been said that Bastianello painted his own portrait in the head of this San Giorgio. This master also painted two pictures in fresco,[2] in the refectory of a monastery belonging to the monks of San Pietro the Martyr; one of these pictures represents our Lord, who, being at Emmaus and seated at table with the two disciples, is breaking the bread with a benediction; the other exhibits the death of San Pietro the Martyr. On the palace of Messer Marguando, an eminent physician, Florigorio painted a picture in fresco| within a niche which is at one of the angles of the building; the subject is a nude figure foreshortened and intended to represent San Giovanni; the painting is considered to be a very good one. Finally, this artist was compelled by certain troubles into which he got himself to depart from Udine, if he had any mind to live in peace, and he withdrew to Civitale accordingly, living there after the fashion of an exile.
The manner of Bastianello Florigorio was dry and hard, partly because he delighted in copying rilievi and objects from nature by the light of a candle: his power of invention was very sufficient, he had considerable practice in taking portraits from the life, and his likenesses were very beautiful as well as good resemblances. In Udine he took that of Messer Raffaello Belgrade among those of other persons; with that of the father of Messer Giovanni Battista Grassi, an eminent painter and architect, of whose courtesy and friendliness we have had many especial intimations, being indebted to his kindness for much of the information which we have here imparted in relation to the artists of Friuli. Bastianello lived to the age of forty or thereabout.[3] Another disciple of Pellegrino was Francesco Floriani of
- ↑ “This picture alone would suffice to ennoble a painter,” remarks Lanzi. There are two pictures by Florigerio in the Academy of the Fine Arts at Venice; one of these was taken from the church of the Servites in that city, the other from the church of San Bovo, at Padua.
- ↑ The frescoes executed by this master in Udine have perished, but there are still some of his works in Padua; at the church of St. Bovo, for example, near the gate of the Palace of the Capitani there is also one which bears the date mdxxii., and which is still in good preservation.
- ↑ This artist was still working in the year 1533.—Lanzi.
