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

  • Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860.
Date:
1899
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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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    2 GO Moretto ing as late as 1579. Several examples of his work are in the Venice Academy.] A much finer painter was Alessandro Bonvicino, called II Moretto, who [it is said] also studied under Titian,1 but, by uniting with Venetian color and sentiment something of the dignity of the Roman school and a depth of religious feel- ing which seems to have belonged to his individual character, he surpassed in some of his pictures every painter of his time except Titian. Very little is known of his life, except that great familiarity with the latter’s works.] /