CIRO See also:FERRI (1634-1689)
, See also:Roman painter, the See also:chief See also:disciple and successor of Pietro da See also:Cortona
.
He was See also:born in the Roman territory, studied under Pietro, to whom he became warmly attached, and, at an See also:age a little past See also:thirty, completed the See also:painting of the ceilings and other See also:internal decorations begun by his instructor in the Pitti See also:palace, See also:Florence
.
He also co-operated in or finished several other See also:works by Pietro, both in Florence and in See also:Rome, approaching near to his See also:style and his particular merits, but with less See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace of See also:design and native vigour, and in especial falling See also:short of him in See also:colour
.
Of his own See also:independent productions, the chief is an extensive See also:series of scriptural frescoes in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of S
.
Maria See also:Maggiore in See also:Bergamo; also a painting (rated as See also:Ferri's best See also:work) of St See also:Ambrose healing a sick See also:person, the See also:principal altarpiece in thechurchof S
.
Ambrogio See also:delta Massima in Rome
.
The paintings of the See also:cupola of S
.
Agnese in the same See also:capital might See also:rank even higher than these; but this labour remained uncompleted at the See also:death of Ferri, and was marred by the performances of his successor Corbellini
.
He executed also a large amount of See also:miscellaneous designs, such as etchings and frontispieces for books; and he was an architect besides
.
Ferri was appointed to See also:direct the Florentine students in Rome, and Gabbiani was one of his leading pupils
.
As regards style, Ferri ranks as chief of the so-called Machinists, as opposed to the school founded by See also:Sacchi, and continued by Carlo Maratta
.
He died in Rome—his end being hastened, as it is said, by See also:mortification at his recognized inferiority to Bacciccia in colour
.
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