Adone Doni of Assisi, who is still living, and working, I will add some few particulars, although he has been mentioned in the life of Christofano Gherardi. There are many pictures by his hand in Perugia, and through all Umbria, more particularly in Fuligno; but his best works are at Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi, and in the little Chapel where St. Francis died. Here he has depicted Stories from the Life of the Saint; they are painted in oil on the wall, and have been much praised. In the Convent at that place he has likewise painted the Passion of Christ, in fresco; this is at the upper end of the Pefectory, and does him much honour; he is besides greatly beloved for the courtesy and liberality of his disposition and conduct.
There are two young men of our calling at Orvieto; the one a painter called Cesare del Nebbia; the other a Sculptor, .....[1] both promising to place their native city, which has hitherto always had to employ foreign masters for her embellishment, in a condition to dispense with such aid, seeing that, if they continue as they have begun, she will not need to employ strangers. There is also now working at Orvieto, in Santa Maria that is to say, which is the Cathedral of that city, a certain Niccolò dalle Pomerance, who, having painted the Resurrection of Lazarus by Our Saviour, has proved by this, and other works in fresco, that he merits a name among the artists above-mentioned.[2]
We are now come to the end of our Italian masters still living, and I will therefore only say further, that I have heard some mention of a certain Ludovico, a Florentine sculptor, who, as I am told, has produced good works in England, and at Bari, but as I know nothing of his kindred or family name, and have not seen any of his productions, I cannot (as I fain would) do more than allude to him by these few words.
- ↑ Della Valle, in the Sienese Edition of our Author, fills up this lacuna by the words, “Lo Scalzo, a rival of Michelagnolo,” and of this Scalzo he speaks further in his Storia del Duomo d'Orvieto.
- ↑ Niccolò Circiniano dalle Pomerance, who was the master of Cristofano Roncalli, called Il Pomarancio.
