A book of the Play: Studies And Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, And Character
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Vasari, the historian of painters, has much to say in praise of the " perspective views " or scenes executed by Baldassare Peruzzi, an artist and architect of great fame in his day, who was bom in 1480 at Florence, or Volterra, or Siena, it is not known which, each of these noble cities of Tuscany having claimed to be his birthplace. When the Roman people held high festival in honour of Giuliano de' Medici, they obtained various works of art from Baldassare, including a scene painted for a thea...tre, so ad- mirably ingenious and beautiful, that very great amazement is said to have been awakened in every beholder. At a later period, when "The Calandra," written by the Cardinal di Bibiena — "one of the first comedies seen or recited in the vulgar tongue " — was performed before Pope Leo, the aid of Baldassare was sought again, to prepare the scenic adornments of the representation. His labours were suc- Digitized by VjOOQIC 222 A BOOK OF THE PLAY.
cessful beyond measure ; two of his scenes, painted upon this or upon some other occasion, Vasari pronounced to be ''surprisingly beau- tiful, opening the way to those of a similar kind which have been made in our own day." The artist was a fine colourist, well skilled in perspective, and in the management of light, insomuch that his drawings did not look " like things feigned, but rather as the living reality." Vasari relates that he conducted Titian to see certain works of Peruzzi, of which the illusion was most complete.
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Vasari, the historian of painters, has much to say in praise of the " perspective views " or scenes executed by Baldassare Peruzzi, an artist and architect of great fame in his day, who was bom in 1480 at Florence, or Volterra, or Siena, it is not known which, each of these noble cities of Tuscany having claimed to be his birthplace. When the Roman people held high festival in honour of Giuliano de' Medici, they obtained various works of art from Baldassare, including a scene painted for a thea...tre, so ad- mirably ingenious and beautiful, that very great amazement is said to have been awakened in every beholder. At a later period, when "The Calandra," written by the Cardinal di Bibiena — "one of the first comedies seen or recited in the vulgar tongue " — was performed before Pope Leo, the aid of Baldassare was sought again, to prepare the scenic adornments of the representation. His labours were suc- Digitized by VjOOQIC 222 A BOOK OF THE PLAY.
cessful beyond measure ; two of his scenes, painted upon this or upon some other occasion, Vasari pronounced to be ''surprisingly beau- tiful, opening the way to those of a similar kind which have been made in our own day." The artist was a fine colourist, well skilled in perspective, and in the management of light, insomuch that his drawings did not look " like things feigned, but rather as the living reality." Vasari relates that he conducted Titian to see certain works of Peruzzi, of which the illusion was most complete.
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