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Famous painters and paintings (1876) (14778602881)
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Title: Famous painters and paintings
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Shedd, Julia Ann Clark, 1834-1897
Subjects: Painters Painting
Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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posing. In the latter part of his life his works were oftenexecuted with careless haste, in order to raise money toretrieve his losses at the gaming-table. Among his early pictures is the Crucifixion of St.Peter, now in the Vatican, said to have been painted inimitation of the style of Caravaggio. In the gallery atBologna are three good specimens of his production atthis time, — the Madonna della Pieta ; the Crucifixion,in which the figure of the Virgin is one of his finestcreations; the Massacre of the Innocents, in which thefemale figures are beautiful. A picture representing St. Paul and St. Anthony isin the Berlin Museum. At a later time Guidos fondness for the powerfulbecame moderated, and a more simple and natural stylesucceeded, though unfortunately there exist but fewexamples of this period. His best picture is the Nativ-ity, in the choir of S. Martino at Naples, but it is anunfinished one. He had been invited to Naples, butwas driven away by the jealousy of the Neapolitans.
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THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR. LENOXriLDtN FOUNDATIONfl 1575.) GUIDO. 145 In this work tlicre is a Ijcauty and an artlcssncss whicharc not to be found in any other of his works. Anotlicr excellent specimen is the large painting onthe ceiling of the garden pavilion of the RospigliosiPalace in Rome; the god of day is seated on his chariotsurrounded by a choir of dancing Hours scatteringflowers. Among the latter arc some graceful figuresin beautiful action, and the whole is brilliantly colored.This picture is best known as Guidos Aurora. Another very pleasing work, apparently of his besttime, is his Concert of Angels, a fresco in the apsis ofthe Capella S. Silvia, near S. Gregorio, in Rome. Guidos pictures of a later time are of a pale silvery-gray, possessing less character, and an empty, ordinarykind of grace. One of the best of this class is perhapsthe Assumption, in the Munich Gallery. Another cele-brated picture, in the gallery at Bologna, is a Madonnawith Angels, called II Palli
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