Unknown (Italian: 16th century).
Formerly ascribed to Sebastiano del Piombo.
933. BOY WITH A BIRD.
Padovanino (Venetian: 1590-1650). See 70.
Contrast with this child caressing a dove Baroccio's Christ teasing a bird. Padovanino lived much at Venice, and shared perhaps the Venetian's fondness for pigeons—the sacred birds of St. Mark's, which are kept and fed in the great square to this day at the public charge.
934. VIRGIN AND CHILD.
Carlo Dolci (Florentine: 1616-1686).
Carlo Dolci, the son of a Florentine tailor, is, like his contemporary Sassoferrato, a good instance of the affected religious school described in our introduction to the Later Italian Schools. He was of a very retiring and pious disposition, much given, we are told, to melancholy. Every one who looks first at the pictures of similar subjects by earlier Italian artists will be struck by something sentimental and effeminate in Dolci's conceptions. Similarly in his execution there is an over-smoothness and softness, corresponding to "polished" language in literature (see Modern Painters, vol. iii. pt. iv. ch. ix. § 7). In the Dulwich Gallery is a St. Catherine of Siena which is one of Dolci's chefs d'œuvre.
935. A RIVER SCENE.
Salvator Rosa (Neapolitan: 1615-1673). See 84.