able to find any means of delivering liimself from his prate. At length, and when the day was almost on the point of appearing, Amico exclaimed, “There, get away, and boil thy cabbage, for the time is getting on.”
Many other jests and follies of a similar kind are related of Amico, but of these I will make no further mention, since it is now time to say some few words of Girolamo da Codignuola.[1] This artist painted many pictures and portraits from the life in Bologna, and among them are two in the palace of the Vinacci family, which are exceedingly beautiful. He also took the likeness of Monsignore di Foix, after the death of that leader, who was killed at the rout of Ravenna; and no long time after having painted this, he depicted a portrait of Maximilian Sforza. In the church of San Giuseppe, there is a picture by the hand of Girolamo Codignuola, for which he obtained great commendation;[2] and the picture in oil, which is in the chapel of San Benedetto, in the church of San Michele, in Bologna, is by this artist. This last work caused Girolamo to receive a commission for a part of the paintings drawn in fresco, and executed a secco around that church, which he completed in company with Biagio of Bologna, and wherein there may be found evidence of considerable ability, as we have remarked when speaking of the manner of the above-named Biagio.[3]
In the Church of Santa Colomba at Rimini, Girolamo painted a figure of Santa Lucia; this work he executed in competition with Benedetto da Ferrara and Lattanzio; it occupies an angle of the building, and the expression is rather voluptuous than appropriate or beautiful. In the apsis of the same church, he depicted a Coronation of Our Lady, with the twelve Apostles and the four Evangelists, but the heads are so large and frightful that they are a shame to behold. Returning to Bologna, Girolamo did not remain there any
- ↑ Girolamo Marchesi, called “Ii Cotignuola,” from the place of his birth, was a disciple of Francia, and an imitator of Raphael. He died in Rome during the potificate of Paul III.—Ed. Flor. 1832-8. In 1550 namely, and in his sixty-ninth year.
- ↑ Now in the Gallery of the Academy of Bologna. See Giordani, Catalogo, &c.
- ↑ The paintings executed in San Michele have perished, with the exception of figures representing the four Evangelists, which are in the sacristy.
