_Orations in praise of the Fine Arts_; by Cav. Puccini. Florence, 1794,
8vo. and ed. 1804, 8vo. i. 371. By Ab Magnani. Parma, 1794, 4to. v. 117. By
Tagliazucchi, Turin, 1730, 8vo. v. 485. By Monsig. Carrara. Rome, 1758,
4to. i. 1.
Oretti, Marcello. He was a Bolognese, who travelled through Italy, and
collected materials for a history of painting--consulted archives,
sepulchral monuments, oral traditions, national annals, and the age of the
artists. His 53 volumes were placed in the library of Prince Filippo
Ercolani, who purchased them from his successors, and very kindly gave me
the use of them for this work. The Cav. Gio. de Lazara, of Padua, assisted
by Sig. Pietro Brandolese, of Lendinara, drew several inedited notices from
these volumes, in addition to the number before extracted. They are added
to this edition under two different heads, namely, _Oretti Carteggio_ and
_Oretti Memorie_, or the initials of these words. Under the first are
comprehended notices of different artists, communicated in letters to Sig.
Oretti, or to others, which he procured. Under the second are the notices
collected by himself from the places he passed through, in particular at
Bologna, from authentic documents and registers, monuments, &c. He is
frequently noticed throughout Index I.
Orlandi, P. Pellegrino. _Dictionary of Painting._ Bologna, 1719, 4to. The
author's letter preceding the work is dated 1718, to which period we refer
the artists he therein mentions as living. Opinion of this work, _pref._
xiv. xx. Cited throughout the work. Its errors, i. 264, 286, iii. 160, 291,
293, 309, 332, iv. 229, 271, 227, v. 33, 35, 156, 291, 300, 325, 397, 410.
---- The same. _Corrected and enlarged by Pietro Guarienti._ Venice, 4to.
1753. Estimate of this book, _pref._ xiv. xx. Cited throughout the work,
and in the Index of artists. Corrected, i. 252, iv. 210, 213, 310, v. 253,
257, 267, and in Index I.
---- The same, at Florence, 1776, 2 vols. 4to. Wanting in the Addenda of
Guarienti, but with others by modern artists, _pref._ xx. Cited in Index I.
Orsini, Baldassare. _Reply to the Letters on Painting, by Annibal
Mariotti._ Perugia, 1791, 8vo. ii. 7.
---- The same. _See Guida di Ascoli._
Ottonelli, P. Giandomenico, and Pietro da Cortona. _Trattato della Pittura
e Scultura, uso e abuso loro, composto da un Teologo e da un Pittore._
Florence, 1652, 4to. i. 337.