The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-06
ARTISTS OF ROME
6nous Painters and Sculptors
Who Are Now Living.
coRAToRs or THE vAT,cAM.


s Ronx, April D.-fSpecial Correspon-
1ence.l-I will begin with some account Of
fhe Nestor Of Roman artists, the painter
rpancesco Rodesti, who lately celebrated
r. Goth birthday. On this occasion he
rooeivcd letters Of congratulation from al
- scademies of art in Italy. from the
h1nx and from the mayor of Rome.
fbdcsti fifty years ago received = decora-
I'm from Charles Albert, the grandfather
e King Humbert, and he was the master
II several Of the painters here
Years ago he painted for Plus TX. one OF
- halls in the Vatican, and he still makes
efetures with hand as firm and an eye Is
c1sar Is many younger men, At 80 years
u age he published q book Of fresh poems
fAst won praises from the critics. He il .
small, active, wiry man with . bright eye
md . moustache, and walks about the
erect as If he we're 50 instead Of so.
Physically and intellectually he is the
Vonder Of all who know him.
Alessandro Mantovani, although many
years younger, can work no more, as the
canning hand that made such beautiful
rointings is now distorted with rheuma-
tism. He labored in the Loggre of the Vati-
en- thirty years aud his frescoes on the
wallis Of the gallery, where Plus TX. used
% walk every day in his long white robe
md scarlet mantle, are among the most
heautiful in that wonderful palace. Man.
st0vsni made constant studies from nature
foF these frescoes and this gallery il the
level of the Vatican. There are crystal
lied all the beauties of garden and forest.
Sunlight, moonlight, flowers, birds, trees,
katy, sun-beaten bowers. all the graceful
animals Of the forest or the home, the allie
gorical lamb, the doves and palms. all
coneinc to form place which u nothing
less than enchanting.
Professor Mantovani's daughter. Rosina
Guti, under his instruction has become
one of the best Lady artists in the city.
She paints lutte or guitar with such
lifeiike truth that you go to the wall to
nick Il up, while child would cry for the
grapes and raisins created with her brush.
Gugiielmo de Sanctis Is bachelor, but
bachelor with . family of sisters and
nephews, the best brother and one of the
hest artists in Rome. One of his sisters is
also an artist, and paints, at present, How
ers and little Cupids on mirrors. They
have studio consisting of severa. large,
very high rooms, the walls Of which are
covered with ancient tapestries and silks
and satins, with rusty old coats of armor
and swords and halebards. DR.. Sanctis il
one of the best portrait painters in Italy.
He has in his studio portrait Of Longfel-
low, taken when the poet was in Rome,
many years ago. His portrait Of the fam
Gus literary man and member of parlia,
ment, Ruggero Honghi, is = remarkable
likeness and fine painting. Some Of his
other works are portrait Of King Hum
bert on horseback; one of the miracles Of
Saint Frances de Sales, and he is now al
work upon . large picture representing
Donna Loympia Pamfili and her brother.
in-law. the pope whom she ruled, limo.
cent X.
De Sanctis' studio is under the Pincian
hill, ut 80 Via Margutta, and the name on
marble slab, with red letters, peeps out
of 4 mass of ivy that overruns the steps.