Identifier: paintersofschool00gardrich (find matches)
Title: The painters of the school of Ferrara
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Gardner, Edmund Garratt, 1869-1935
Subjects: Painters -- Italy Ferrara Painters -- Italy Bologna Painting -- Italy Ferrara Painting -- Italy Bologna Ferrara (Italy) -- History Bologna (Italy) -- History
Publisher: London : Duckworth New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rd collection, but is evidently thework of a different master who cannot be identified. In the meanwhile, the painters of Modena hadnaturally followed the lead of the dominant city.Among the Modenese influenced by Tura are Agnoloand Bartolommeo degli Erri, members of a family ofartists much employed by the Estensi, especially inminor commissions for the court and in decoratingtheir less important palaces, who in 1465 painted apolyptych centering round the Coronation of OurLady. More direct imitators of Tura are Cristoforoda Lendinara, an indifferent artist, by whom is asigned Madonna and Child of 1482, and BartolommeoBonascia, the author of n noteworthy Pieta, signedand dated 1485, who was still working in the earlyyears of the Cinquecento. These three pictures arenow in the Galleria Estense at Modena. The chronicler of Modena, Jacopino de** Bianchi orde I^ncellotti, under November 10, 1481, mentions » Cf, Venturi, / PUlori drgli J<Jrri o del R, in Arch. Stor. deWArte,VII. (1891).
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AndiTSou Marco Zoppo MADONNA AND CHI IDCook Collection Io/dce j)age 62 FRANCESCO BIANCHI 63 lino dito m^ Biancho Feraro da Modena as thepainter of the arms of Duke Ercole, and those of theCommune, outside the Palazzo del Comune of the city.^His son Tommasino, who continued his chronicle,alludes under October 25, 1509, to maestro Francescode Biancho Frare painting el sepolcro posto in Modenain Tospedaletto de la compagnia da la morte ; ^ thatis, the terra-cotta group of the Pieta by GuidoIMazzoni, now in San Giovanni. Documentary evidenceshows that the painters name was Francesco Bianchior Francesco Ferrari (of which Frare is an abbreviation),the latter name being apparently that of his family.^It seems that, like Roberti, he was trained in theschool of Tura, and was then influenced by his moremasterful fellow-pupil. Like other Modenese painters,he executed small commissions for Ferrara, and, in1482, we find him sending two gilded bards to theDuchess Leonora,* probably for her to give

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