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A26548	Painting illustrated in three diallogues containing some choice observations upon the art together with the lives of the most eminent painters from Cimabue to the time of Raphael and Michael Angelo : with an explanation of the difficult terms.	Aglionby, William, d. 1705.	1686 (1686)	Wing A765; ESTC R27095	126,132	426

near these Walls that seem to hang as if they would fall he drew Pluto with his Char drawn by fiery Horses accompanied by Infernal Furies and seeming to fly to the Center of the Earth By which Invention Giulio did not depart from his Subject and yet alluded to Fire which was the properest Ornament for the Chimney 'T is impossible to see a Story either more boldly Designed or more capriciously Invented the whole Composition hanging all together without either Beginning or End and being adorned with variety of odd Landskips to such an Advantage that the Room which is not fifteen yards in length seems to be a vast Compass All which shews the admirable Judgment of Giulio the Colouring is all of Rinaldo Montouano and admirable for in this Piece he attained to a great perfection insomuch that had he lived and not dyed Young he would have proved a most exquisite Painter While Giulio was thus employing his Talent for the Marquess's Service the River Po one year broke its Banks and overflowed a good part of the City whereupon Giulio by the Command of the Marquess caused all that low part of the Town to be pulled down and upon those Ruines be raised New Buildings vvhose Foundations vvere higher than the Water But in so doing he could not but disoblige some Owners of Houses who threatned Revenge which coming to the Prince's Ear he declared that whatsoever should be done to Giulio he would take as done to himself and punish it accordingly And indeed the Duke was so in Love with the Vertues of Giulio that he could hardly live without him which made him likewise love the place so well that he built himself a House which he adorned with Stucco Work and Antiquities he had brought from Rome And before he died he had almost built the whole City a new having inlarged the Streets and given the Design of most of the best Houses and Pallaces as also of the Churches and other publick Aedifices In the Duke's Pallace within the City he made two noble Stair-Cases a Lumaca and built nevv Appartments in vvhich he painted all the History of the Wars of Troy and in another Room under the hands of the Tvvelve Roman Emperours painted by Titian he made twelve Stories in Oyl he built likewise another Pallace for the Duke about five Miles from Mantua called Marmirolo which was most commodiously contrived and adorned with Paintings not inferiour to those of the Pallaces above mentioned Several of his best things have been published in prints by Giovan Baptista Mantouano the chief of which are these A Chirurgion putting Cupping-Glasses upon a Woman's Shoulders a Madonna Travailing to Aegypt where Joseph has the Ass by the Halter and some Angels pull down the Bows of a Date-Tree that Christ may gather the Fruit a She-Wolf giving Suck to Romulus and Remus Four Stories of Pluto Jupiter and Neptune dividing Heaven Earth and the Sea a great Design of a Prison in which a number of Prisoners are put to the Rack in several manners The Meeting that Scipio and Hannibal had in the presence of both their Armies upon the Banks of a River and the Nativity of Saint John Graved by Sebastiano da Reggio Several other of his Designs have been Graved in France and Flanders by good hands Giulio was so great a Designer and did it with so much Ease that none ever Designed so much he having made Horse-loads of Designs of one sort or other for being a most Universal Painter and an Admirable Architect no sort of Design came amiss to him but he was particularly Learned in Antiquity understanding Medals most perfectly and having a rare Collection of them After the Death of the Marquess Frederick who had been made Duke by the Emperour Charles the Fifth Giulio was so concerned for the loss of so good a Master that he would have left Mantoua if the Cardinal Brother to the late Duke and who by reason of the young Age of his Nephews had the Government of that State had not used all sorts of courteous ways to perswade him to stay and considering besides that he was Married there and had Houses and all sorts of Conveniencies both in the Town and Country fit for a Gentleman to live in resolved to yield to the Cardinals intreaties and was by him imployed in the Re-building the Duomo of the Great Church which he carried on a great way Not long after Michael Angelo published his Judgment at Rome and Vasari sent to Giulio three Designs of the seven Mortal Sins taken out of that Story of the Judgment which he receiving it revived in him a desire of doing something that should be as strong as that way of Michael Angelo and for that reason he chose the Story of our Saviour's calling Peter and Andrew and bidding them leave their Nets and turn Fishers of Men Which Cartoon he finished with so much diligence and force that it was absolutely the best of all the things he ever did it was placed in a Chappel in the Pallace and painted by the Hand of Ferino Guisoni an excellent Painter and one of Giulio's best Schollars About this time Antonio Sangallo the chief Architect of Saint Peters Church in Rome being dead and the Super-Intendants of that Work being much puzzled to find out a Man fit to carry it on according to the Order already begun at last they pitched upon Giulio Romano and sent some of his Friends to him to tempt him with great Offers but all in vain for though he of himself could willingly have accepted such an Opportunity of returning so gloriously to his own Countrey yet two things hindred him first the Respect of the Cardinal of Mantoua who was no ways willing to let him go and then the Consideration of his Wife and Family who were much against it and yet 't is thought he would have struggled with these two Impediments if at the same time he had not fallen sick of which Distemper what with the Anxiety of seeing his desire of returning to Rome frustrated and the Strength of his Disease together he dyed in few days being just fifty four years old and leaving a Son and a Daughter and a good Estate to his Son whom in honour of his Master he had named Raphael He was Buryed in the Church of Saint Barnabe without any Monument at present but a Resolution to have one made for him but his Son dying not long after and his Wife not being careful of the thing it was never begun His Onely Daughter and Heir Virginia was Married in Mantoua to Signior Hercole Malatesta Giulio was of a middle Stature black Hair an open jovial Countenance with black Eyes Amorous in his Complexion very well bred Sober in his Dyet but Sumptuous in his Cloaths and way of Living This Epitaph is upon his Tomb-Stone Romanus moriens secum tres Julius Artes Abstulit haud mirum quatuor unus erat The LIFE of PERINO DEL VAGA A Florentine Painter THere

the Company for want of Skill to understand its true Beauty but Donato perswaded them at last to let him set it up telling them that he would take some more pains with it when it was up and did not doubt but to please them accordingly he made a Scaffold and covered the Figure for a Fortnight as if he had been at work about it at the end of which time he opened it and filled every body with admiration at the Excellency of it He made likewise in the Front of Sancta Maria del Fiore four Figures of about five Palms high two of which made after the Life are in the middle and one is Francesco Soderini who was then a Young Man and the other Giovanni di Barduccio Cherichini Nick-named Il Zuccone and it being as fine a thing as any Donato ever made he was likewise so much pleased with it that when he had a mind to be believed in any thing he said he would instead of affirming it by an Oath say only By the Love I bear to my Zuccone and while he was working of it being often pleased with his success in that Statue he would stand and look upon it and then say these words in Italian Favella or su Favella O ti venga il caca sangue Which is in English Speak a Plague take thee speak For the Lords of the City of Florence he made in Cast-Mettal the Story of Judith cutting off Holofernes's Head and in the Looks of Judith it was easie to see the greatness of her Mind and the Assistance from above as likewise in the Air of Holofernes oppressed with Wine Sleep and Death the spreading of a Faintness all over upon the decay of his Spirits which made his Members look weak and languish'd The Basis likewise is a Balusted of Granite-Stone of a plain Order but very graceful Donato was so pleased with this piece that he wrote his Name under it in these words Donatelli Opus Which he had not done yet to any other piece of his He made many things for the Family of Medicis Cosimo of Medicis who was then the Head of that Family employing him continually 'T is reported that by the Recommendation of Cosimo he made a very fine head of Bronze for a Genouese-Merchant and made it very thin and polished it because it was to be carried a good way when it was finished Donato and the Merchant not agreeing about the Price the thing was referred to Cosimo who the better to view the Head placed it in his Court upon a Marble Balustead that looked down into the Street and desiring to make up the difference between them he found the Genouese far from Reason on his side and arguing that what he offered already would amount to above half a Florin a day for the time that Donato had been about it which he thought was enough for a man of his Sort. Donato at this was transported with Anger and turning to the Merchant told him that in a minute he could spoil the work of a whole year and thereupon struck the Head so as it fell over into the Street and broke in twenty pieces The Merchant then repenting of his foolish Parcimony offered him twice as much to make another but Donato obstinately refused it telling him that Statues were not to be bought by the Days-work nor by the Pound as other Merchandize And though Cosimo himself joyn'd his Intreaties to the Merchant's yet he could not prevail with him to make another Head In the Family of the Martelli there are many Stories of Marble and Bronze of his doing but particularly a Saint John of Marble of three Palms high and perfectly finished by him it was reputed by them so rare a piece that it was made a Fidei Commissum so as it can never be Sold or Mortgaged by any of the Family And this they did to perpetuate the Memory of the mutual Kindness that was between Donato and that Family under whose Roof he had been Bred and learned his Profession Much about this time the City of Venice having heard of the Fame of Donato sent for him to make something in the Honour of Guatema Lata a Citizen of Padoua and accordingly he made the Horse and the Figure upon it which is in the place of Saint Antonio where he equally Succeeded in expressing the Courage and Boldness of the Rider with the Fierceness and Mettle of the Horse And though the Figure be of Cast-Mettal and large yet in Motion Design Art Proportion and Diligence he appears equal to any of the Antient Artificers and far surpassing all those of his Time who were astonished at the greatness of his Genius the City of Padoua used all their Endeavours to make him their Citizen and oblige him to settle amongst them which to obtain they agreed with him to make the Story of the Life of Saint Anthony of Basso Relievo upon the Border of the great Altar which he performed with such variety of Composition and such an abundance of Figures and Perspectives that the Masters of the ART do this day admire them While he was at Padoua a Florentine Priest who was Chaplain to a Nunnery desired him to make a Saint Sebastian of Wood for their Church and at the same time brought him an old ill favoured mishapen thing desiring him to make it like that which he endeavouring to do to humour them could not help nevertheless the showing some Mastery in it though it were as like the old one as possible Many other Works he did at Padoua where he was continually admired and applauded which made him resolve to return to Florence saying That if he should stay any longer in a place where he heard nothing but high Commendations of himself he should forget all that he had ever learn't therefore he would go home that he might hear himself blamed sometimes that being the greatest Spur an Artist could have to Improvement Being returned to Florence he wrought an Infinity of excellent things in all kinds both in Marble Wood Stone and Bronze the chief of which are in the House of Medicis and those of other of the Nobility It may truly be said of him that he was the Father of Sculpture being the first that brought the Works of the Antients in Repute and sought them out where they lay neglected taking the pains to mend them and set them in order as he did with his own hand all In a word Donato was so excellent in all the parts of a great Sculptor that he deserves the highest Commendations and the rather because in his time there were very few Antiquities discovered He was as to his own Disposition the most Obliging and Generous that could be not valuing Money in the least for he used to put that which he received into a little Basket which hung fix'd to the Ceiling by a Pully and there any of his Friends and Schollars used to take what they wanted without so much as acquainting him with it therefore when he grew Old and not able to work he was fain to accept of the Generosity of Cosimo of Medicis and other Friends 'T is said that Cosimo dying recommended him to his Son Piero who being very careful to execute his Father's Will bestowed a little Countrey Farm upon him which he might very well live out of and Donato was overjoyed at it thinking that now he was provided for and needed not to fear Starving Starving but for all that he did not keep it above a Year before he gave it back again to Piero by a publick Contract saying he would not loose his Quiet which he must do if he kept it for every two or three days the Farmer was at him for some Dammage or Reparations sometimes the Wind had untiled the House sometimes his Cattle was pounded or died To all which Donato not being used resolved to be rid of him and the Land together Piero of Medicis laughed heartily at his Complaints and taking the Land again assigned him a Rent-Charge of the same value upon his Bank at Florence which was paid him every Week to his great Content and so he made an end quietly of his Old-Age in the eighty third year of his Life and in the Year 1466. He was Buried in San Lorenzo next to the Body of Cosimo di Medicis being very honourably Interred and Accompanied to his Grave by all the Artists and the best part of the People of the City One thing I must not forget to tell of him in his last Sickness which was that some of his Relations came about him to perswade him to leave them a little Countrey House and Land of a very small Value which he had near Prato telling him he ought in that to gratifie them as being next a Kin to him Donato hearing them out told them that he was sorry he could not oblige them in their Request being resolved to bestow it upon the poor Countrey-Man who had always looked to it and endured pains enough about it Thinking that a more reasonable Disposition than to give it them for a Visit which they now made him when he was a dying to no other end than to get what they could out of him As for all the things belonging to his Art he distributed them among his Schollars the famousest of which were Bertoldo a Florentine Sculptor Il Rosellino Desideio and Vellano di Padoua And indeed since his Death who ever has aimed at excelling in Relievo must have studied his Works the number of which is so great that no Artist ever wrought so much as he did which was a great happiness for Sculpture the great variety of his undertakings being so many Lessons of all kinds in that Profession in which he showed both Invention Design Practice Judgment Strength Sweetness and in a word all the parts of a Divine and Wonderful Artist FINIS