ITALY,
Thomas Roscoe translation
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. IV.
CONTAINING THE SCHOOLS OF LOMBARDY, MANTUA, MODENA, PARMA, CREMONA, AND MILAN.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR
W. SIMPKIN AND R. MARSHALL, STATIONERS'-HALL COURT, LUDGATE STREET.
1828.
J. M'Creery, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London.
CONTENTS
OF
THE FOURTH VOLUME.
HISTORY OF PAINTING IN UPPER ITALY.
BOOK THE SECOND.
SCHOOLS OF LOMBARDY.
CHAP. I.
MANTUAN SCHOOL.
Page
Epoch I. Of Mantegna and his successors 5
Epoch II. Giulio Romano and his school 14
Epoch III. Decline of the school, and foundation of an academy in order to restore it 26
CHAP. II.
MODENESE SCHOOL.
Epoch I. The old masters 32
Epoch II. Imitation of Raffaello and Coreggio in the sixteenth century 42
Epoch III. The Modenese artists of the seventeenth century chiefly follow the example of the Bolognese 57
CHAP. III.
SCHOOL OF PARMA.
Epoch I. The ancients 74
Epoch II. Coreggio, and those who succeeded him in his school 79
Epoch III. Parmese school of the Caracci, and of other foreigners until the period of the foundation of the academy 134
CHAP. IV.
SCHOOL OF CREMONA.
Epoch I. The ancients 148
Epoch II. Camillo Boccaccino, Il Soiaro, the Campi 163
Epoch III. Decline of the school of the Campi. Trotti and other artists support it 182
Epoch IV. Foreign manners introduced into Cremona 194
CHAP. V.
SCHOOL OF MILAN.
Epoch I. Account of the ancient masters until the time of Vinci 206[a]
Epoch II. Vinci establishes an academy of design at Milan. His pupils and the best native artists down to the time of Gaudenzio 238
Epoch III. The Procaccini and other foreign and native artists form a new academy, with new styles, in the city and state of Milan 283
Epoch IV. After the time of Daniele Crespi the art declines. A third academy is founded for its improvement 305