Anselino Canneri[1] for example, and Paolo Veronese,[2] who is now working in Venice, and is considered a good master.[3] Anselmo has produced many pictures both in oil and fresco, more particularly at Soranza on the Tesino, and in the palace of the Soranzi family at Castelfranco. Anselmo worked in many other places also, as at Vicenza. But returning to Giovanni Caroto, we have further to remark that this artist was entombed in the church of Santa Maria dell’ Organo, where he had painted a chapel with his own hand.
Francesco Torbido, called II Moro, a painter of Verona, received the first principles of his art while still but a youth from Giorgione da' Castel Franco, and ever afterwards imitated that master in colouring and in softness. But while Francesco was thus studying his art, he fell into strife with I know not whom, and managed to handle his antagonist in such sort that he was compelled to leave Venice and return to Verona. Here he laid aside painting for some time, and being somewhat free of his hands, nor ever backward in a fray, he maintained a close intercourse with the young nobles of the city, living among them as one of their equals (for he had very good breeding), and remaining for some time at his leisure and without any occupation. He was more particularly intimate with the Counts Sanbonifazi and the Counts Giusti, two of the most illustrious families of Verona, with whom he became so familiar^ that not only did he dwell in their palaces as if he had been born in them, but after no great lapse of time he received from Count Zenovello Giusti a natural daughter of his own for a wife, and was furthermore supplied with apartments in the palace for himself, for his wife, and for whatever children might be born to them.
I find it related that while Francesco was thus living in the service of these nobles, he had ever a pencil in his pocket, and wherever he went would be always depicting some head
- ↑ Anselmo Canneri was a good painter, and assisted his fellow townsman and co-disciple, Paolo Veronese, in many of his works.—Ed. Flor. 1832 -8.
- ↑ The celebrated Paolo Cagliari, who acquired the first rudiments of his art under Giovanni Caroto, but who afterwards pursued his studies under Antonio Badile. —Ibid.
- ↑ Lanzi tells us that Paul Veronese was not thought much of during his early years, even in his own country; hence the slightness of the mention made of him by Vasari. See Hist., vol. ii. pp. 206, 213.
