34. 1484. Bernardino d’Antonio.
35. 1484. Cristofano di Pietro Paolo del Quarantotto.
Of these men nothing is known but the reference to them here.
36. 1505–6. Bernardino di Benedetto or Betto (Il Pinturicchio).
Of this painter, and his work, so much has been written elsewhere, that I shall only attempt the briefest sketch of his life here.
He was a native of Perugia, was the son of a certain Betto or Benedetto, and was born in 1454. He had six children by his wife Grania: Adriana, who married Giuseppe, son of Giovanni of Perugia, and died in 1518: Clelia or Egidia, who married Girolamo, son of Paolo of Perugia, called Paffa, a soldier of the guard of Siena; Giulio Cesare (b. 1506); Camillo (b. 1509); Faustina Girolama (b. 1510); and Faustina, who married Filippo, son of Paolo of Perugia, or of Deruta. His frescoes in the Libreria of the Duomo, and the chapel of S. Giovanni, are among the most celebrated of Italian works of art. Vasari relates many more or less fictitious stories about his life and doings, which, though amusing to read, are not borne out by fact. He died in 1513, and was buried in the Church of SS. Vincenzo and Anastasia, the Chapel of the Contrada of the Porcupine (Istrice).
37. 1505–6. Paolo Mannucci.
Of this artist, nothing is known, but the notice already quoted, which states that he was employed to execute Pinturicchio’s design of the Allegory of Fortune. (No. 36.)
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