Beccafumi

The shadowy figures in the Beccafumi drawings on display in London could easily have come from a Pompeiian wall — and the painter would surely have seen examples of ancient Roman art in his travels to the Eternal City.

Mysteries of Siena Rowland, Ingrid D. 2008

Warming to the task and picking at random, I found Beccafumi (1486 – 1551) yielding thirteen cases of dental exposure; looked north and found Lucas van Leyden riding the familiar theme of the tooth-pulling surgeon and pinning a toothy snarl on a King Saul disgruntled by David's harping.

Your Teeth Are Showing Steinberg, Leo 2001

Here also are paintings of Moses and Aaron, St. Luke and St. John, by Beccafumi, and the Sacrifice of Abraham and the Entombment by Sodoma.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

Pacchia (1477-1535), Peruzzi (1481-1536), a half-Lombard half-Umbrian painter of ability, and Beccafumi (1486-1551) were the principal lights.

A Text-Book of the History of Painting John Charles Van Dyke 1894

Beccafumi, with his bronze and neillo -- these are the artists whom one wonders at; these wood-carvers and bronze-founders, creators of the microcosmic detail of the Renaissance which had at last burst triumphantly into Siena.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two 1885

I by no means go so far as to say, with an amateur with whom I have just been discussing the matter, that "Sodoma is a precious poor painter and Beccafumi no painter at all"; but, opportunity being limited, I am willing to let the remark about Beccafumi pass for true.

Italian Hours Henry James 1879

Sodoma and Beccafumi are to my taste a rather abortive maximum.

Italian Hours Henry James 1879

Beccafumi is apt to leave the spectator of his paintings cold.

Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866

Both Beccafumi and Peruzzi felt the cold and manneristic Roman style of rhetoric injuriously.

Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866

Some of these compositions are as old as the cathedral; others are the work of Beccafumi and his scholars.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866