Word: romanino
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Sooner or later, eyes less jaded than his contemporaries' were bound to notice Romanino. His frescoes fill the churches of Brescia, his home town in northern Italy, and the chapels and monasteries dotting the surrounding countryside. When city fathers saw the 400th anniversary of his death approaching-biographers guess that he died between 1560 and 1566-they thought it high time to give a boost to his reputation. With funds from Rome, they restored the town's 11th century duomo and flooded its musty stone interior with fluorescent light; his paintings and frescoes were rounded up and mounted...
...knows for sure when he was born, or even when he died. Historians passed him by, and the only accounts he left of his own life are nagging reminders of the difficulty he had collecting payment for his paintings. One can perhaps forgive his age for slighting Girolamo Romanino. It was, after all, in love with Raphael, Leonardo, Titian and Michelangelo...
...other times, his painting reflects a mercurial temperament tinged with bitterness. He aimed to please-to a point. He included in St. Anthony the patron who was to donate the work to the church. Drawing the line at flattering the man, Romanino portrayed him, standing at the foot of the saint, as hawk-nosed, heavy-jowled and haughty...
...masterpiece, the Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine. According to legend, Catherine was executed and borne heavenward by angels where her devotion was rewarded when, having refused many suitors, she was betrothed to the Infant Christ by the Virgin Mary. It should be a supremely happy occasion, but as Romanino portrays it, the scene is singularly lacking in heavenly joy. The skies are threatening, the nuns troubled, the Virgin sad, the Infant petulant. Miraculously wedding deep Venetian hues, Lombardian realism and Gothic expressionism, the painting seems a superb summation of that place and that moment when the brusque Angst-filled winds...
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