. Alberto, a friar of that Order, and the whole figure is
much extolled. A pupil of Giovanni's, also, although he gained but
little thereby, was Benedetto Coda of Ferrara, who dwelt in Rimini,
where he made many pictures, leaving behind him a son named Bartolommeo,
who did the same. It is said that Giorgione Castelfranco also pursued
his first studies of art under Giovanni, and likewise many others, both
from the territory of Treviso and from Lombardy, of whom there is no
need to make record.

Finally, having lived ninety years, Giovanni passed from this life,
overcome by old age, leaving an eternal memorial of his name in the
works that he had made both in his native city of Venice and abroad; and
he was honourably buried in the same church and in the same tomb in
which he had laid his brother Gentile to rest. Nor were there wanting in
Venice men who sought to honour him when dead with sonnets and epigrams,
even as he, when alive, had honoured both himself and his country. About
the same time that these Bellini were alive, or a little before, many
pictures were painted in Venice by Giacomo Marzone, who, among other
things, painted one in the Chapel of the Assumption in S. Lena--namely,
the Virgin with a palm, S. Benedict, S. Helen, and S. John; but in the
old manner, with the figures on tip-toe, as was the custom of those
painters who lived in the time of Bartolommeo da Bergamo.

FOOTNOTES:

[18] Poplar.

[19] White poplar.

COSIMO ROSSELLI

LIFE OF COSIMO ROSSELLI

PAINTER OF FLORENCE

Many men take an unholy delight in covering others with ridicule and
scorn--a delight which generally turns to their own confusion, as it
came to pass in the case of Cosimo Rosselli, who threw back on their own
heads the ridicule of those who sought to vilify his labours. This
Cosimo, although he was not one of the rarest or most excellent painters
of his time, nevertheless made works that were passing good. In his
youth he painted a panel in the Church of S. Ambrogio in Florence, which
is on the right hand as one enters the church; and three figures over an
arch for the Nuns of S. Jacopo delle Murate. In the Church of the Servi,
also in Florence, he painted the panel of the Chapel of S. Barbara; and
in the first court, before one enters into the church, he wrought in
fresco the story of the Blessed Filippo taking the Habit of Our Lady.
For the Monks of Cestello he painted the panel of their high-altar, with
ano