Pintoricchio

Chapter I. BIOGRAPHICAL 1

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II. DERIVATION AND CHARACTER OF HIS ART 19

III. FIRST PERIOD IN ROME 36

IV. LIFE IN ROME--CONTINUED 55

V. THE BORGIA APARTMENTS 64

VI. THE SAME, AND THE CASTEL SANT' ANGELO 86

VII. SPELLO 100

VIII. SIENA AND THE LAST OF ROME 106

IX. THE LIBRARY AT SIENA 115

X. PANEL PAINTINGS 139

CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF PINTORICCHIO 153

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY 155

BRITISH ISLES 155

FRANCE 156

GERMANY 156

ITALY 157

SPAIN 162

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 163

INDEX 167

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Portrait of a Boy _Dresden Gallery_ _Frontispiece_ 16

A Miracle of San Bernardino, by Fiorenzo di Lorenzo _Perugia Gallery_ 24

Four Heads of Women (From the Sketch-Book) _Venice_ 40

The Journey of Moses _Sixtine Chapel, Rome_ 42

The Baptism of Christ _The same_ 44

The Burial of San Bernardino. (From the Buffalini Chapel) _Church of Ara Cœli, Rome_ 50

The Glorification of San Bernardino, from the same _The same_ 54

The Annunciation _Borgia Apartments, Vatican, Rome_ 68

Pope Alexander VI. adoring the Risen Christ _The same_ 70

Detail, Figure of the Pope _The same_ 72

Detail from the Assumption of the Virgin--the Kneeling Man _The same_ 74

The Story of Susanna _The same_ 74

St. Anthony and St. Paul--Hermits _The same_ 76

The Demon Women, a Detail from the above _The same_ 78

The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian _The same_ 78

The Dispute of St. Catherine _The same_ 80

The Figure of St. Catherine, another Detail from the same _Borgia Apartments, Vatican, Rome_ 80

Group of Heads, a Detail from the above _The same_ 82

General View of the Hall of Liberal Arts and Sciences _The same_ 86

The Madonna and Child, with Angels (over the door) _The same_ 88

Figure representing Arithmetic _The same_ 90

Figure representing Music _The same_ 92

The Adoration of the Shepherds _Sta. Maria Maggiore, Spello_ 102

The Annunciation _The same_ 104

Portrait of Pintoricchio _The same_ 104

The Knight of Aringhieri _Siena_ 110

Symbolical Scene, from the Pavement in the Cathedral _The same_ 112

The Return of Ulysses _National Gallery, London_ 114

Study for Fresco I., by Raphael _Venice_ 118

Æneas Piccolomini on his way to the Council at Basel _The Library, Siena_ 120

Frederick III. crowning Æneas Piccolomini as Poet Laureate _The same_ 126

Æneas Piccolomini sent by Frederick III. to Pope Eugenius IV. _The same_ 128

A Group of Men, Detail from Fresco IX. _The same_ 132

Æneas Piccolomini elected Pope under the name of Pius II. _The same_ 134

Pope Pius II. at Ancona _The same_ 136

The Madonna and Child, with St. John. (From the large _ancona_) _Perugia Gallery_ 140

The Madonna and Child, with Angels and a Donor _Duomo, San Severino_ 142

The Madonna and Child _National Gallery, London_ 146

St. Augustine, St. Benedict, and St. Bernard, from the Reliquary _Berlin Gallery_ 148

The Christ-Child and St John the Baptist. (From the Holy Family) _Siena Gallery_ 148

Christ bearing the Cross _Pal. Borromeo, Milan_ 150

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VASARI. Ed. G. C. Sansoni. Firenze, 1878.

CROWE AND CAVALCASELLE. "History of Painting in Italy." 1866.

VERMIGLIOLI. "Memorie di Pinturicchio." Perugia, 1837.

EHRLE AND STEVENSON. "Gli affreschi del Pinturicchio nell' Appartamento, Borgia." 1897.

A. SCHMARSOW. "Raphael und Pinturicchio in Siena." Stuttgart, 1880.

A. SCHMARSOW. "Pinturicchio in Rom." Stuttgart, 1882.

E. STEINMANN. "Pinturicchio," No. 37, Knackfuss Series. 1898.

B. BERENSON. "Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance." 1897.

DEAN KITCHIN. "History of Pius II."

GREGOROVIUS. "History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages."

BIAGIO. | BENEDETTO. | BERNARDINO, Painter, called Il Pintoricchio, _b. circa_ 1454; _d._ 1513; _m._ Grania, daughter of Niccolò of Modena or Bologna | +-----------+---------+----------+-------------+----------+ | | | | | | GIULIO CAMILLO, FAUSTINA EGIDIA, FAUSTINA, ADRIANA, CESARE, _b._ 1509 GIROLAMA, or GILIA, _m._ _d._ 1519; _b._ 1506 in Siena. _b._ 1510 _m._ Filippodi _m._ in Siena. in Siena. Girolamo di Guiseppe di Paolo, Paolo da a Perugian, of Giovanni called Il Deruta. of Paffo, Perugia soldier of the Piazza in Siena.

(From MILANESI'S _Appendix to Vasari_.)

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