g in Italy somewhat. Then it
was swayed by Cornelius and Overbeck from Germany. Morelli (1826-[2])
shows this latter influence, though one of the most important of the
living men.[3] In the 1860's Mariano Fortuny, a Spaniard at Rome, led
the younger element in the glittering and the sparkling, and this
style mingled with much that is more strikingly Parisian than Italian,
may be found in the works of painters like Michetti, De Nittis
(1846-1884), Favretto, Tito, Nono, Simonetti, and others.
[Footnote 2: Died, 1901.]
[Footnote 3: See _Scribner's Magazine_, Neapolitan Art, Dec., 1890,
Feb., 1891.]
Of recent days the impressionistic view of light and color has had its
influence; but the Italian work at its best is below that of France.
Segantini[4] was one of the most promising of the younger men in
subjects that have an archaic air about them. Boldini, though Italian
born and originally following Fortuny's example, is really more
Parisian than anything else. He is an artist of much power and
technical strength in _genre_ subjects and portraits. The newer men
are Fragiocomo, Fattori, Mancini, Marchetti.
[Footnote 4: Died, 1899.]
PRINCIPAL WORKS: MANNERISTS--Agnolo Bronzino, Christ in
Limbo and many portraits in Uffizi and Nat. Gal. Lon.;
Vasari, many pictures in galleries at Arezzo, Bologna,
Berlin, Munich, Louvre, Madrid; Salviati, Charity Christ
Uffizi, Patience Pitti, St. Thomas Louvre, Love and Psyche
Berlin; Federigo Zucchero, Duomo Florence, Ducal Palace
Venice, Allegories Uffizi, Calumny Hampton Court; Baroccio,
Pardon of St. Francis Urbino, Annunciation Loreto, several
pictures in Uffizi, Nat. Gal. Lon., Louvre, Dresden Gal.
ECLECTICS--Ludovico Caracci, Cathedral frescos Bologna,
thirteen pictures Bologna Gal.; Agostino Caracci, frescos
(with Annibale) Farnese Pal. Rome, altar-pieces Bologna
Gal.; Annibale Carracci, frescos (with Agostino) Farnese
Pal. Rome, other pictures Bologna Gal., Uffizi, Naples Mus.,
Dresden, Berlin, Louvre, Nat. Gal. Lon.; Domenichino, St.
Jerome Vatican, S. Pietro in Vincoli, Diana Borghese,
Bologna, Pitti, Louvre, Nat. Gal. Lon.; Guido Reni, frescos
Aurora Rospigliosi Pal. Rome, many pictures Bologna,
Borghese Gal., Pitti, Uffizi, Brera, Naples, Louvre, and
other galleries of Europe; Albani, Guercino, Sassoferrato,
and Carlo Dolci, works in almost every European gallery,
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