Memoirs of the early Italian painters / by Anna Jameson; thoroughly revised and in part rewritten by Estelle M. Hurll.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Date:: 1899

Credit: Memoirs of the early Italian painters / by Anna Jameson; thoroughly revised and in part rewritten by Estelle M. Hurll. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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for years. Andrea seems also to have been allied to his master in mind and character, for Raphael parted from him with deep regret.1 Polidoro Caldara [1495-1543], called from the place of his birth Polidoro da Caravaggio, was a poor boy who had been employed by the fresco painters in the Vatican to carry Polidoro the wet mortar and afterwards to grind their colors : he learned to admire, then to emulate what he saw, and Raphael en- couraged and aided him by his instructions. The bent of Polidoro’s genius as it developed itself was a curious and interesting compound of his two vocations. He had been a mason, or what we should call a bricklayer’s boy, for the first twenty years of his life. Prom building houses he took to 1 [The close relation between Salerno and Raphael is doubted by modern art writers.]

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