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S constrained to yield to the crowd that trampled upon him, thus
verifying the prediction of Monsignore Agucchi, that his merits would
never be rightly appreciated during his life-time. The spirit of party
having passed away, impartial posterity has rendered him justice; nor is
there a royal gallery but confesses an ambition to possess his works.
His figure pieces are in the highest esteem, and command enormous
prices." PROOF OF THE MERITS OF DOMENICHINO. No better proof of the
exalted merits of Domenichino can be desired, than the fact that upwards
of fifty of his works have been engraved by the most renowned engravers,
as Gerard Audran, Raffaelle Morghen, Sir Robert Strange, C. F. von
Muller, and other illustrious artists; many of these also have been
frequently repeated. DOMENICHINO'S CARICATURES. While Domenichino was in
Naples, he was visited by his biographer Passeri, then a young man, who
was engaged to assist in repairing the pictures in the Cardinal's
chapel. "When he arrived at Frescati," says Passeri, "Domenichino
received me with much courtesy, and hearing that I took a singular
delight in the belles-lettres, it increased his kindness to me. I
remember that I gazed on this man as though he were an angel. I remained
there to the end of September, occupied in restoring the chapel of St.
Sebastian, which had been ruined by the damp. Sometimes Domenichino
would join us, singing delightfully to recreate himself. When night set
in, we returned to our apartment; while he most frequently remained in
his room, occupied in drawing, and permitting none to see him.
Sometimes, however, to pass the time, he drew caricatures of us all, and
of the inhabitants of the villa. When he succeeded to his perfect
satisfaction, he was wont to indulge in immoderate fits of laughter; and
we, who were in the adjoining room, would run in to know his reason,
when he showed us his spirited sketches. He drew a caricature of me with
a guitar, one of Carmini (the painter), and one of the Guarda Roba, who
was lame of the gout; and of the Sub-guarda Roba, a most ridiculous
figure--to prevent our being offended, he caricatured himself. These
portraits are now preserved by Signor Giovanni Pietro Bellori."
INTRIGUES OF THE NEAPOLITAN TRIUMVIRATE OF PAINTERS. The conspiracy of
Bellisario Corenzio, Giuseppe Ribera, and Gio. Battista Caracciolo,
called the Neapolitan