CHAPTER XVII
July 26. Numbered XVIII
219. Bandinello. Bartolommeo Bandinelli, sculptor, of Florence (1493–1560).
The Perseus of Benvenuto Cellini. See Roscoe’s translation of Cellini’s Memoirs, chapters 41, 43, etc.
[220]. Men of no mark or likelihood. 1 King Henry IV., Act III. Sc. 2.
[221]. Even in death there is animation too. Cf. ‘That were a theme might animate the dead,’ Cowper, Table Talk, 202.
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[221]. Forsyth. Joseph Forsyth (1763–1815), whose Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters, during an Excursion in Italy in the years 1802 and 1803, were published in 1813.
[222]. Elegant Extracts. Elegant Extracts in Prose, in Verse, and Epistles, 1789, and often reprinted later. Compiled by Vicesimus Knox (1752–1821), Master of Tonbridge School, 1778–1812.
[223]. Trim’s story of the sausage-maker’s wife. Tristram Shandy, Book II. 17.
Labour of love. 1 Thessalonians i. 3.
As Rousseau prided himself. Les Confessions, Partie II. Livre ix.
[224]. Just washed in the dew. The Taming of the Shrew, Act II. Sc. 1.
Strange child-worship. Lamb, Lines on the celebrated picture by Leonardo da Vinci; called the Virgin of the Rocks.
Luini. Bernardino Luini (c. 1460–70–c. 1530), whose style so resembles that of Leonardo da Vinci that it is difficult to distinguish their works.
[225]. Bronzino. A name applied to a family of Florentine painters, Angiolo Allori (1502–1572), Alessandro Allori (1535–1607), and Cristofano Allori (1577–1621).
The late Mr. Opie. John Opie (1761–1807), portrait painter. See vol. VI. Mr. Northcote’s Conversations, p. 343 and note.
A thing of life. Byron’s Corsair, Canto I. 3.
[226]. Deliberation sits and public care. Paradise Lost, II. 303.
Julio Romano. See ante, note to p. [18].
Andrea del Sarto. See ante, note to p. [25].
Giorgioni. See ante, note to p. [26].
Schiavoni. ?Andrea Meldolla, or Il Schiavone (1522–1582), of Dalmatian birth, a follower of Titian.
Cigoli. Lodovico Cardi, otherwise called Cigoli (1559–1613), Florentine painter, a follower of Andrea del Sarto and Michael Angelo.
Fra Bartolomeo. Bartolommeo di Pagholo del Fattorino, generally called Fra Bartolommeo (1475–1517). Some of his earliest sketches he committed to the flames under the influence of Savonarola in 1489 and, later, became a monk.
Shardborne beetle. Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 2.
Lady Morgan. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan (1783?-1859), the novelist. Her Life of Salvator Rosa was published in 1823; see Hazlitt’s review of it, vol. X., Edinburgh Review Articles, pp. 276 et seq.