A History Of Painting In North Italy - Volume 1

PREFACE History of Painting in North Italy by Crowe and Cavalcaselle has long ago taken rank among the classics of art-history. It shows to perfection the critical acumen of the authors and their unique combination of broadness of outlook with the most patient finish in every detail, technical as well as historical. The ceaseless labour devoted by art-historians during the past forty years to the field of research covered by this book has brought to light an immense mass of new material. It is, of course, inevitable that in many cases these discoveries necessitate a revision of our authors conclusions, but it is remarkable in how many instances their instinctive Tightness of judgment has been fully confirmed. In view of the fact that a work of such importance has long been out of print and is still constantly in demand by students of North Italian art, it is believed that the present re-edition will supply a serious want. It has been thought advisable to carry out the present edi tion on lines similar to those adopted in the new authorised edition of the same writers History of Painting in Italy, to which it is indeed a companion work. That is to say, the text and notes of the original edition 1871 are reprinted verbatim, the only alterations being the correction of misprints and obvious slips, changes in the catalogue numbers of pictures and the official names of galleries e g. Victoria and Albert Museum instead of South Kensington Museum, and such corrections and additions as the authors had already made in manuscript notes to the first edition. The editor has confined vi PKEFACE himself to the addition of notes marked by an asterisk con taining such new facts as have been brought tolight in the last four decades, together with the previously unpublished results of his own researches prosecuted in Italy and elsewhere for some years. My debt of gratitude to those from whom, in the course of my work, I have received kindness and assistance is not easily measured. I wish in this place especially to express my sincere thanks to Mr. Roger E. Fry for constant aid and advice, to Mr. Herbert Cook for much information about pictures in English private collections and about the Lombard School of Painting, to Mr. Robert C. Witt for allowing me to use his rich collection of reproductions, and to Dr. Giuseppe Gerola for many valuable communications., TANGRED BOBBNIUS. LONDON, February 1912. CONTENTS VOL. I CHAPTER I PAGE JACOBELLO DONATO. ...... 1 CHAPTER II THE MUKAKBSE . . . . . .17 CHAPTER III BABTOLOMMEO VIVABINT . . . . . .38 CHAPTER IV LtriGi VIVABINI ....... 51 CHAPTER V JAOOPO DA VALENTIA, ANDREA DA MTJBASTO, AND THE CBIVELLI ........ 72 CHAPTER VI JACOPO BELLINI ....... 100 CHAPTER VII BELLINI CONTENTS CHAPTER VIII PAGE GIOVANNI BELLINI ., . . . . .139 CHAPTER IX CABPACCIO AND OTHER FOLLOWERS 03 GENTILE BELLINI 193 CHAPTER X ClMA AND OTHER BELLINESQTJES .... 237 LIST OF ILLTJSTEATIONS VOL. I 1. GIOVANNI - BELLINI. THE VIRGIN AND CHILD WITH SAINTS. Venice, Santa Maria dei Frari ..... Frontispiece FACING PAGE 2. JACOBELLO DEL FIORE. ALLEGORY OF JUSTICE. Venice Academy .......... 4 3. ANTONIO DA NEGROPONTE. THE VIRGIN ADORING THE CHILD. Venice, San Francesco della Vigna. . . . . .10 4. MlOHELE GlAMBONO. THE VIRGIN AND CHILD. Rome, MlSS Hertz ........... 14 5. GIOVANNI DALAMAGNA AND ANTONIO VIVARINI. THE VIRGIN AND CHILD WITH THE FOUR DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH. Venice Academy.......... 26 6. ANTONIO AND BARTOLOMMEO VIVARINI. THE VIRGIN AND CHILD WITH SAINTS. Bologna Gallery ...... 30 7. ANTONIO VIVARINI. THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI. Berlin, Kaiser Friedrich Museum ....... 32 8. QUIRIOIO DA MURANO. ALTARPIEOE OP ST. LUCY. RovigO, Communal Gallery ........ 34 9. BARTOLOMMEO VIVARINI. THE VIRGIN AND CHILD WITH SAINTS. Naples Museum ......... 40 10. BARTOLOMMEO VIVARINI. NATIVITY OF THE VIRGIN. Venice, Santa Maria Formosa ........ 40 11...