Excerpt from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2: From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century; Containing the Schools of Naples, Venice, Lombardy, Mantua, Modena, Parma, Cremona, and Milan

He instructed in the art a son, called Francesco di Simone, who was highly extolled for a Madonna in Chiaroscuro, in the church of S. Chiara, and which was one of the works which escaped being effaced on the occasion before mentioned. He had two other scholars in Gennaro di Cola, and Stefanone, who were very much alike in their manner, and on that account were chosen to paint in conjunction some large com positions, such as the pictures of the Life of S. Lodovico, bishop of Tolosa, which Simone had only commenced, and various others of the life of the Virgin, in S. Giovanni da Carbonara, which were preserved for a long period. N otwith standing the similarity of their styles, we may perceive a difference in the genius of the two artists; the first being in reference to the second, studied and correct, and anxious to overcome all difficulties, and to elevate the art; on which account he appears occasionally somewhat laboured: the second discovers more genius, more confidence, and a greater freedom of pencil, and to his figures he gives a spirit that might have assured him a distinguished place, if he had been born at a more advanced period of art.

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