Volume 2

A general dictionary of painters; containing memoirs of the lives and work of the most eminent professors of the art of painting, from its revival, by Cimabue, in the year 1250, to the present time / [Ed. by J. Watkins].

  • Pilkington, Matthew, approximately 1700-1774.
Date:
1824
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Credit: A general dictionary of painters; containing memoirs of the lives and work of the most eminent professors of the art of painting, from its revival, by Cimabue, in the year 1250, to the present time / [Ed. by J. Watkins]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    birth is not ascertained; but it is conjectured that he lived in 1640. MAGANZA, Giovanni Batista, the Elder, received his education in the school of Titian, whose manner he imitated to perfection. He did not, however, prove so happy in his- torical as portrait painting, though specimens of the former are handed down, combining peculiar chastity and refinement of feeling. Maganza equally shone as a poet in his day ; the effusions of his muse appearing under the title of Ma- gagno. This artist, a native of Vicenza, was born in 1509, and died in 1589. MAGANZA, Alessandro, a native of Vicenza, was son of the foregoing. After studying in the school of his parent, he became the eleve of Antonio Fasolo, when he applied himself to the manner of Zelotti and Veronese. The Mar- tyrdom of St. Giustina; and the Adoration of the Magi; both preserved at Vicenza, are the principal works of this artist, who died at the age of seventy-four, in 1630. MAGANZA, Giovanni Batista, the Younger, studied under his father, Alessandro, and painted history in his man- ner, proving nearly his equal in a delineation of St. Benedetto, preserved at Padua. This artist also assisted his father in several performances executed at Vincenza, in which city he received his birth, and also became a victim to the plague in his fortieth year, A. D. 1617. MAGGI, Giovanni, though a painter of landscapes and architectural subjects, figures more as an engraver. Having- associated himself with Domenico Parasachi, he executed a series of plates, representing the most conspicuous fountains in Rome, which work appeared in 1618. Independent of this, Maggi announced his intention of giving on a very extended scale, the plan of Rome and its celebrated edifices : this plan, however, failed, as amateurs were not found to support the undertaking. Maggi lived at the commence- ment of the seventeenth century, and claimed Rome as the place of his nativity. MAGISTRIS, Simone de, flourished in the Ecclesiastical States, in the year 1585. He was born atCaldarola, and proved clever, both as a painter and sculptor. His pictures of St. Philip and St. James are better composed than executed. At a later period of his proficiency, he painted his Madonna del Rosario, in St. Domenico, at Ascoli, which is much ap- proved by Orsino. MAGNANI, Cristofano, was a pupil of Bernardino Campi. He painted history and portraits with considerable