The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-06

Roman history dea1neafed BY such mas
ter hand.
Maccari Is ! native Of siena and has
there just completed some frescoes In the
city hall He has received honOrs of all
kinds, but remains the same unpretending
man - before. His wife, Who Is cult
ured German lady, will sometimes tell how
he Is feted At the villas Of the mobiles in
their summer outings.
Cesare Mariani has frescoed many
churches In Rome and other parts Of
Italy, and has been engaged for the last
four years on the ceiling of church in
Ascoli, . town near the Adriatic. One Of
his oil paintings was bought by the king
and is now in the Quirinal palace. He and
his wife, who is also an artist. spend six
months Of the year in Ascoli and six in
Rome, where they have . fne studio at
Vicolo yantaggio. signora Mariani Is :
general favorite with al who have the
fortune to know her. She can paint you
. picture in oil or . water color, or .
pastel or plate or ceramica, or initiate
with her needle pretty piece of fancy
work.
water col0rs, who divides his time between
Sivoli and Rome. At o'clock in the
morning in summer he is up and of over
the hills near Sivoli to catch the glow of
the rising sun, and late of evenings in the
fall he braves the pestilential air of the
MacarcSe 70 paint the red clouds at sunset.
He made forty pictures of the Ghetto and
the old towers and houses on the Tiber be-
fore they were demolished to make way
for the new city improvements.
Giuseppe Scinti carried several large
paintings representing scenes in Roman
history TO the Italian Exposition at Lon
don in 1883 and sold them for $4,000.
For years he had not sold anything, but
on his return with riches he found the
wife who had been his faithful companion
many years dead.
Michael Camarane has painted very
large battle pieces; Danieli Bucuarella, 4S
Via San Basilio, paints water color
sketches of Venice and the Roman prov
ince, while Tiratelli, Bezxio and host of
others are good artists. But space fails
me to tell Of all those who gather the
beauty of earth and sky and human face
and form, and must hasten to the sculp-
tors.
Three colossal monuments in honor of
Victor Emanuel, Garibaldi and Cavour
are now preparing in Rome. The order
for the equestrian statue of the first king
native of Fruii. 1t will crown the enor-
nous architectural monument on the
Campidogiio that will cost the nation near
81, OO0,O0
Signor Chiaradia, who is q young man
and extremely modest. has his studio at
No. S Via Margutta. But the great statue
is not yet begun. He will make it during
sthe next three years on the Campidogllo,
not in clay, but in gasso, in q studio that
will be built expressly for it by the city.
1t will then be fused in bronze by Nelli Of
Rome aud when completed and in its place
will be seen facing the Corso, the principal
street of Rome.
On another commanding height of the
city at San Pieto, in Montorio, from which
there is magnificent view of Rome, the
Campagna, the Apennines and the Aiban
hills, will be erected the colossal monu-
ment in honor of Garibaldi, to be made by
Luigi Gailort, Florentine. He has built
on one of the lovely country roads
Just outside Of Porta Pia, studio fifty
feet high, where during the next five years
he will prepare the models of the statute
on horseback and Of the four colossal
groups intended to ornament the pedestal.
This immense studio is strange looking
building with s'Gallori' in large letters on
the outside and beautiful garden in front
where q guardian stands who will not let
you in unless the artist himself is there
In one corner is q small spiral iron stair
case leading up to balcony from which
he will view his work when it is done.
Caliori is young man and full of genius.
The monument to Cavour that will be
erected in five years at the Piazza Cavour
in the Fields of the Castle on the other
side of the Tiber, will be made by the
sculptor Gailetti whose studio is in the
VIA Gesie Maria
This, too, will be colossal and an orna-
ment to that part Of the city.
Whoever visits the Pincian hill will see
on spot overlooking the city, with st.
Peters and the Vatican in the background,