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THE
HISTORY OF PAINTING
IN
ITALY.
VOL. I.
THE
HISTORY OF PAINTING
IN
ITALY,
FROM THE PERIOD OF THE REVIVAL OF
THE FINE ARTS
TO THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY:
TRANSLATED
From the Original Italian
OF THE
ABATE LUIGI LANZI.
BY THOMAS ROSCOE.
_IN SIX VOLUMES._
VOL. I.
CONTAINING THE SCHOOLS OF FLORENCE AND SIENA.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR
W. SIMPKIN AND R. MARSHALL,
STATIONERS'-HALL COURT, LUDGATE STREET.
1828.
J. M'Creery, Tooks Court,
Chancery Lane, London.
ADVERTISEMENT.
After the very copious and excellent remarks upon the objects of the
present history contained in the Author's Preface, the Translator feels
that it would be useless on his part to add any further explanation.
It would not be right, however, to close these volumes without some
acknowledgment of the valuable assistance he has received. Amongst
others, he is particularly indebted to Dr. Traill, of Liverpool, who
after proceeding to some length with a translation of this work, kindly
placed what he had completed in the hands of the Translator, with
liberty to make such use of it as might be deemed advantageous to the
present undertaking. To Mr. W. Y. Ottley, who also contemplated, and in
part executed, a version of the same author, the Translator has to
express his obligations for several explanations of terms of art, which
the intimacy of that gentleman with the fine arts, in all their
branches, peculiarly qualifies him to impart.[1] Similar acknowledgments
are due to an enlightened and learned foreigner, Mr. Panizzi, of
Liverpool, for his kind explanation of various obscure phrases and
doubtful passages.
Notwithstanding the anxious desire and unremitting endeavours of the
Translator to render this work, in all instances, as accurate as the
nature of the subject, and the numerous difficulties he had to surmount
would allow, yet, in dismissing it from his hands, he cannot repress the
feeling that he must throw himself upon the indulgence of the public to
excuse such errors as may be discoverable in the text. He trusts,
however, that where it may be found incorrect, it will for the most part
be in those passages where doubtful terms of art lay in his way,
intelligible only to the initiated, and which perhaps many of the
countrymen of Lanzi themselves might not be able very readily to
explain.
[Footnote 1: The following are among the valuable works which have been
given to the public by Mr. Ottley:--The Italian School of Design, being
a series of Fac-similes of Original Drawings, &c.--An Inquiry into the
History of Engraving.--The Stafford Gallery.--A Series of Plates
engraved after the Paintings and Sculptures of the most eminent masters
of the early Florentine School, during the 13th, 14th, and 15th
centuries. This work forms a complete illustration of the first volume
of Lanzi.--A Catalogue of the National Gallery.--Fac-similes of
Specimens of Early Masters, &c.]
CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
Page
_Advertisement_ iii
_Preface by the Author_ i
_Biographical Notice by the Translator_ xli
HISTORY OF PAINTING IN LOWER ITALY.
BOOK I.
FLORENTINE SCHOOL.
EPOCH I. _Origin of the revival of painting_--_Association
and methods of the old painters_--_Series
of Tuscan artists before the time of
Cimabue and Giotto._ SECT. I. 1
_Florentine painters who lived after Giotto
to the end of the fifteenth century._ SECT. II. 51
_Origin and progress of engraving on copper
and wood._ SECT. III. 105
EPOCH II. _Vinci, Bonarruoti, and other celebrated
artists, form the most flourishing era of this
school_ 147
EPOCH III. _The imitators of Michelangiolo_ 229
EPOCH IV. _Cigoli and his Associates improve the
style of painting_ 280
EPOCH V. _Pietro da Cortona and his followers_ 335