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Title: A history of painting... / with a preface by Frank Brangwyn
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: Boston : Dana Estes and Co.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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as the poetic sense of serenity and command of atmo-sphere, with an astounding decorative feeling, that areassociated with the master-work of Claude. But he hadnot Claudes sustained force ; and could descend at times toaffectation and the insipid. It was when he painted wildscenes in the mountains and forests that the depth andsolemn sense of their tragedy compelled him to his highestutterance. Salvator Rosa had spent his youth amongst thewild bandits of Lower Italy, as befitted an artist of theviolent tradition of the School of Naples ; and the nativeblood in him found its reality and its inspiration in ,thesescenes—in which, by the way, he is fond of paintinghermits or robbers or soldiers. His capacity to renderdesolation and threat and fear in landscape was profound.Indeed, his figure paintings are always at their best whenhe has a landscape after his heart as background. 64 VI SALVATOR ROSA 1615 1673 SCHOOL OF THE TENEBROSI OR NATURALISTSLANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES (National Gallery)
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OF PAINTING From Salvator Rosas pupils came two landscape- WHEREINpainters of distinction—Bartolommeo Torregiani, of A NEWRome, who painted much like Claude ; and Domenico ANDGargiuoli, of Naples, also known as Micco Spadaro, who VASTERalso painted figures on a small scale, and whose series of ^7™^pictures of the tragedy of Masaniello and the Plague of COMES1656 are a complete history in pictured form of these INTOevents. ITALY, NOT MAGNASCO WITHOUT A fine painter who founded his art on that of Salvator VIOLENCERosa was Alessandro Magnasco, known as Lissandrino,a Genoese, born in 1662, whose works are often given toSalvator Rosa. A good Sicilian painter of this school, Pietro Novelli,known as Monrealese, whose many excellent portraits maybe seen in Rome, is most famous for his Marriage at Canain the refectory of the Benedictines at Monreale. Of the many fine battle-painters and painters of the lifeof the people of this time were Michelangelo Cerquozzi,and his pupil, the Frenchman

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