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Title: The painters of the school of Ferrara
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Gardner, Edmund Garratt, 1869-1935
Subjects: Painters -- Italy Ferrara Painters -- Italy Bologna Painting -- Italy Ferrara Painting -- Italy Bologna Ferrara (Italy) -- History Bologna (Italy) -- History
Publisher: London : Duckworth New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ecutors of the late bishop, GianpietroArrivabene (who had died in the March of that year),commissioned an altarpiece from Timoteo Viti, inaccordance with the Bishops bequest, for the decorationof the chapel he had founded in the Duomo in honourof St. Thomas of Canterbury and St. Martin.^ Thepicture is now in the sacristy of the Duomo. The twomild-faced patron Saints are enthroned under an arch,beyond which is a beautiful landscape with a river-girdled city rather questionably said to be Mantua, withthe deceased Bishop kneeling below on one side, and,on the other, Elizabettas husband, the reigning Duke,Guidobaldo. It is a carefully finished work, verypleasant in colour. The portrait of Guidobaldo, thatmost pathetic of the Renaissance princes, is peculiarlyinteresting, but curiously unlike the one painted, prob-ably a year or two later, by Giovanni Francesco Caroto. 1 The frescoep were assigned to Genga, the altarpiece to Timoteo.Cf. Milunesi, Notes to Vasari, IV. p. 496. t jf^ .11 9JWm
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.lii(/n-sou T I.MOT KG Viri ST. MAUV MA(^1)ALEXE Bologna To face page 124 TIMOTEO VITI t25 Also for the Duomo of Urbino, Tiinoteo painted thefamous Mary Magdalene now at Bologna. This wascommissioned by Lodovico Amaduzzi, archpriest of theCathedral, for the chapel of San Cipriano founded byhim in 1508, and was probably executed then or inthe following year. It is strange that no painter hasever given us an adequate or worthy representation ofthis most beautiful of all the Saints, she whom St.Catherine heard leading the music of Paradise, con vocealta e con grazia di singolar dolcezza. Timoteos is acharming figure, conceived in the romantic spirit; ^ butwe miss just what Vasari finds specially to praise in it: the divinity of her countenance, which verily showsin her expression the love which she bore to her Master.The background has been considerably repainted. Guidobaldo died in 1508, and was succeeded by hisadopted nephew, Francesco Maria della Rovere. In) 509, when the new Dukes br

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