The History of Italian Painting. Luigi Lanzi

that is to say, to Grimaldi. The figure is in the Guercino taste, according to the opinion of Sig. Orsini; but I cannot conceive how he or the Sig. Mariotti (p. 273) should not have remarked that it must be the production of Giandomenico Cerrini, of Perugia, contemporary with Grimaldi and Guercino, and not of that Domenico, the painter of wooden scenes, who lived about an age anterior to them.

[305] Lett. Pittoriche, tom. ii. p. 69.

[306] A few of the names that obtained least celebrity in Siena are pointed out by P. M. della Valle in the third volume of the Lettere Senesi, (p. 459,) among which are found Crescienzio Gamberelli Nasinesco, Deifobo Burbarini, a poor artist, Aurelio Martelli, called Il Mutolo, Gio. Batista Ramacciotti, a priest and connoisseur in painting; and the same may be said of Bernardino Fungai, and of the noble Marcello Loli, of Galgano Perpignano, with others of like merit, either omitted or slightly mentioned by Sig. Pecci. P. della Valle excuses himself from the task of treating of them in favor of happier writers, but as we do not pretend to aspire to that felicity, we shall leave others to avail themselves of the Father's liberality.

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       HISTORY OF PAINTING IN LOWER ITALY.

       BOOK III.

       ROMAN SCHOOL.

       EPOCH I.

       EPOCH II.

       EPOCH III.

       FOURTH EPOCH.

       FIFTH EPOCH.

       BOOK IV.

       NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL.

       FIRST EPOCH.

       SECOND EPOCH.

       THIRD EPOCH.

       FOURTH EPOCH.

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