- Giovanni Santi
Giovanni Santi x (c. 1435 –
August 1 1494 ), was an Italian painter andpoet , father ofRaphael . He was born atColbordolo in the Duchy of Urbino, was a petty merchant for a time, then studied underPiero della Francesca , was influenced byFiorenzo di Lorenzo , and seems to have been an assistant and friend ofMelozzo da Forli . He was court painter to the Duke of Urbino and painted severalaltarpiece s, two now in the Berlin Museum, a Madonna in the church of San Francesco in Urbino, one atSanta Croce onFano , one in the National Gallery atLondon , and another in the gallery at Urbino; anAnnunciation at the Brera inMilan ; and aJerome in the Lateran. His work is pleasing, though mediocre.anti's Poetry and List of 15th Century Painters
His poetry includes an epic in honor of one of his patrons,
Federico III da Montefeltro , Duke of Urbino, followed a discourse on painting. The event conmemorates a visit to Mantua, where the Duke marveled at the skill ofAndrea Mantegna , he then goes on to comment that: "nela cui arte splendida e gentile/nel secul nostro tanti chiar son stati/ che ciescuno altro far paren por vile"(Translation) "In this splendid and gentle age/ so many have been famous in our century/ that it make others seem destitute"Sancti then goes on to list famous names in painting, as known to him, this constitutes a remarkable concise list of 27 prominent painters of the late 15th century Italy and Belgium, as one painter would have known. Sancti's list reproduced in no order:
*1)
Fra Angelico
*2)Ghirlandaio
*3) Piero andAntonio Pollaiuolo
*4)Sandro Botticelli
*5)Leonardo da Vinci
*6)Filippino Lippi
*7)Pietro Perugino
*8)Luca Signorelli
*9)Gentile Bellini
*10)Giovanni Bellini
*11)Andrea Mantegna
*12)Andrea del Castagno
*13)Cosimo Tura
*14)Piero della Francesca
*15)Ercole de' Roberti
*16)Francesco di Pesello orPesellino
*17)Masaccio
*18)Paolo Uccello
*19)Pisanello
*20)Domenico Veneziano
*21)Melozzo da Forli
*22)Gentile da Fabriano
*23)Antonello da Messina
*25)Jan van Eyck
*26)Rogier van der Weyden Publications
*Schmarsow, "Giovanni Santi" (Berlin, 1887)
*Poetry and list derived from "Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy".Michael Baxandall . Oxford University Press 1980.External links
* [http://www.aiwaz.net/panopticon/santi-giovanni/gc344 Giovanni Santi at Panopticon Virtual Art Gallery]
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