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1857, 3,100 francs.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 661; Ch. Blanc, École française; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Gaz. des B. Arts (1874), x. 464; Gautier, Guide au Louvre, 13; Meyer, Gesch., 91.
GIROLAMO DI BENVENUTO, born in
1470, died in 1524. Sienese school; son
and pupil of Benvenuto del Guasta. Painted
in 1508 a Virgin of the Snow, in S. Domenico,
Siena, which, though resembling his
father's productions, is more pleasing.
There are several pictures by him in the
Siena Academy, and a S. Chiara with a
kneeling Pilgrim in the Osservanza outside
Siena.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 73.
GIROLAMO BRESCIANO. See Savoldo.
GIROLAMO DA CARPI, born at Ferrara
about 1501, died about 1561. Lombardo-Ferrarese
school. Real name de' Sellari or
de' Livizzani, but called da Carpi because
his father, Tommaso, was born there. Pupil
of Benvenuto Garofalo; afterwards
painted at Bologna, and later studied works
of Correggio and Parmigianino in Modena
and Parma. Though he imitated them, he
was not a servile copyist, but had a style of
his own. Painted in fresco and in oil, and
was very successful in portraits; was also an
architect. Among his works are: Adoration
of the Magi, and Madonna, Bologna
Academy; Christ in the House of Martha
and Mary, Uffizi, Florence; Entombment,
Palazzo Pitti, ib.; Portrait of Archbishop
Salimbeni, ib.; Christ on the Mount of Olives,
ib.; Venus and Cupid, Dresden Gallery.—Vasari,
ed. Mil., vi. 469; Lanzi, iii.
204; Ch. Blanc, École ferraraise; Cittadella,
Memorie di . . . Garofalo (Ferrara, 1872);
Lavice, 63.
GIROLAMO DA COTIGNOLA, born in
Cotignola about 1481, died in 1550. Bolognese
school. Real name Girolamo Marchesi,
son of Antonio M.; pupil of Zaganelli(?)
and of Francesco Francia, but in his
later days an imitator of Raphael and Michelangelo.
A Nativity of 1513, in his early
style, is in Lord Ashburton's Collection.
Examples of his later manner, dated 1516
and 1526, are in the Berlin Museum; Madonna
and Saints, dated 1518, L'Annunziata,
Parma; Marriage of the Virgin, and
the Annunciation, Nativity, and Flight into
Egypt, in a predella, Bologna Pinac. Vasari
says he was chiefly known as a portrait
painter.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 601; Vasari,
ed. Mil., v. 182; Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise.
GIROLAMO DAI LIBRI, born in Verona
in 1474, died July 22, 1555. Venetian
school. Son of Francesco dai Libri, a miniaturist
(or illuminator of books, whence he
got his name), of whom no vestige has been
preserved, and grandson of Stefano da Zevio.
His first picture, Christ deposed from the
Cross, in the Church of Malsesine, painted
when sixteen years old, is an illustration of
his education in the school of a miniaturist,
but in his later works, inspired by a deep
study of the Mantegnesques, he exhibits the
form and the spirit of a greater art. His
Madonna and Saints, lately in Hamilton
Palace, near Glasgow, is a good example of
this style. Later he shows the influence of
Francesco Morone, as in the Madonna and
Saints, Berlin Museum. Still later he acquires
a more modern treatment in every
branch of practice, as seen in the Conception,
in S. Paolo, Verona. The culminating
point in his career is reached in the Virgin
in Glory and the Madonna and Saints
(1530), Verona Museum; and in the Madonna
and St. Anne, National Gallery, London.
Beginning as a miniaturist, he rose to
a high place amongst the painters of North
Italy, being neither a plagiarist nor a servile
copyist. His son, Francesco (born 1500),
was a miniature and oil painter.—C. & C.,
N. Italy, i. 493; Burckhardt, 606; Lübke,
Gesch. d. ital. Mal., ii. 578.
GIROLAMO DA SANTA CROCE, born
at Santa Croce (?), near Bergamo, flourished
at Venice in 1520-49. Venetian school;
history and landscape painter, perhaps pupil
and assistant of Francesco da Santa
Croce, of whom he may and may not have
been a relative; further developed under
influence of Giovanni Bellini and the great