THE BOLOGNESE SCHOOL OF PAINTERS.
Decline of Plastic Art--Dates of the Eclectic Masters--The
Mannerists--Baroccio--Reaction started by Lodovico Caracci--His
Cousins Annibale and Agostino--Their Studies--Their Academy at
Bologna--Their Artistic Aims--Dionysius Calvaert--Guido Reni--The
Man and his Art--Domenichino--Ruskin's Criticism--Relation of
Domenichino to the Piety of his Age--Caravaggio and the
Realists--Ribera--Lo Spagna--Guercino--His Qualities as
Colorist--His Terribleness--Private Life--Digression upon
Criticism--Reasons why the Bolognese Painters, are justly now
Neglected