The General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 27 : Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 27: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation

Of Andrea on Salerno, is the first artist that deserves rio tioe, of the Neapolitan school. Hé is supposed to 'have been born about 1480. Ena'moured of the'style of Pietro Perugino, who had painted an Assumption of the flight in the dome of Naples, he, set out for Petu 1a to become his pupil but hearing at an inn on the roatfson'te baiiiters bxtol the works of Raphael in the Vatican, 'he altered his mind, went to Rome, and entered thatomaster's school. His stay there was short, for the death of his father.

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