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 60 FERRI— FIESOLE. Cortona, and became the leader of the Machinist)! as opposed to the school of Sacchi, headed by Carlo Maratta. Works, Florence, Uffizj, Alexander reading Homer. Home, cupola of Sant' Agnese; Sant' Ambrogio della Massima, the principal altar-piece, re- presenting St. Ambrose. Bergamo, Santa Maria Maggiore. Dresden Gallery, Dido and ^neas. (Lanzi.) FERRUCCI, NicoDEMo, b. at Fie- sole, d. 1650. An able pupil of Fas- signano, whom he imitated, and assisted in his frescoes at Rome. Tuscan School. ( Baldinucci. ) FETI, DoMENico, called D Mantu- ano, h, at Rome, 1589, d. at Venice, 1624. Roman School. A pupil of Cigoli: he studied also at Mantua, where he was court-painter, the works of Giulio Romano. His best works are in oil, they are richly coloured, well executed, of small dimensions, and represent sacred subjects : many are engraved. Works, Mantua Academy, the Feeding of- the Five Thousand. Florence, Palazzo Corsini, Christ praying in the Garden ; Ecce Homo ; and the Entombment. Dresden Gal- lery, twelve pictures, including seven parables. Louvre, Melancholy; and three other subjects. {Baglione.) FIALETTT, Odoardo, b. at Bologna, 1573, d. at Venice, 1638. Venetian School.' Studied under Gio. Battista Cremonini, at Bologna, and at Venice under Tintoretto, with whom he was a favourite ; and though not approaching the power of that extraordinary painter, Fialetti was an able and skilful drafts- man. He painted for many of the churches at Venice, where he settled in preference to Bologna in order to avoid the competition of the Carracci. He engraved many plates, and was the author of some works on costume and on the arts. His master-piece is the Crucifixion at Santa Croce. {Mat- vtisia, Zanetti.) FIASELLA, DoMENico, called from his birthplace Sarzana, b, 1589, d. Oct 18, 1669. Genoese School. A pupil of Gio. Battista Paggi : he studied the works of Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Guido, the Carracci, and Michelangelo da Caravaggio. He endeavoured to combine the very different styles of these masters, and painted in them seve- rally. He was employed at Rome con- jointly with Domenico Passignano and the Cav. D'Arpino. Fiasella was also a portrait-painter. Works. Sarzana, Murder of the Innocents. (Soprani.) FICHERELLI, Felice, 6. at San Gemignano, 1605, d. 1660. Tuscan School. A pupil of Jacopo da EmpolL He painted original historical subjects: but was more distinguished for the copies he made of the works of Pietro Perugino and Andrea del Sarto. His extremely quiet habits procured liim the nickname of Felice Riposo. {Bal- dinucci.) FIESOLE, Fra Giovanni da, called Beato Angelico, b, at Mugello, 1387, d. at Rome, 1455. Tuscan School. One of the most celebrated of the earlj Florentine painters. His name was Guido, and he belonged to the Predi- cants of Fiesole, he joined the order in 1407. He first distinguished himself as an illuminator. He has expressed with the greatest intensity, the religious idealism of his time, yet rarely trans- gressing the limits of the beautiful in his representations ; thus in the Last Judgment, his refined taste has en- abled him to escape in a great measure those disgusting exhibitions, characte- ristic of the gross superstitions of the age, and of the representation of such subjects, from Orcagna to his time. Fra Angelico's pencil was powerless when it attempted to portray the more violent passions of our nature. But