Paula at Ostia; and seven others. (Sandrart, Baldinucci, National Gallery Catalogue.)
GENNARI, Benedetto, the Younger, b. at Cento, 1633, d. 1715. Bolognese School. The son of Ercole Gennari, the nephew and pupil of Guercino, whom he copied and imitated. He painted history and portraits, and resided some time at Paris and in England, where he was Court painter to Charles the Second and James the Second. There were several other Bolognese painters of this name, and of the school of Guercino: Cesare, the brother of Benedetto (1641-88), copied many of the pictures of Guercino.
Works. Bologna, San Domenico, a picture of Santa Rosa: Folì, at the Filippines, San Zaccharia. (Crespi.)
GENOVESE, Il Prete. [See Strozsi.]
GENTILESCHI, or {{sc}Lom, Orazio}}, b. at Pisa, 1563, d. in England, 1646. Tuscan School. He was called De' Gentileschi, after an uncle. He was the pupil of his brother Aurelio Lomi, at Pisa, and afterwards studied at Borne, where he was employed by Agostino Tassi to insert the figures in his landscapes. He also painted for the churches, and there is a picture of St. Cecilia by him in the Palazzo Borghese. He was much employed by Charles I. of England, in the palace at Greenwich. Some of his works are still preserved in Marlborough House, on the ceiling of the Hall, in oil, on canvas. Gentileschi had much of the Bolognese in style; he was strong in his shadows, and positive in colour. Artemesia, Orazio's daughter, b. 1590, d. 1642, also painted for the King of England, but did not remain long in this country. There is a Judith with the head of Holofemes by her, in the gallery at Florence; and there are two specimens at Hampton Court, including her own portrait. She excelled her father in portraits. She was married to P. Schiastesi, and lived chiefly at Naples, where she died. (Lanzi, Morrona.)
GESSI, Francesco, Bolognese School; b. 1588, d. 1649. A very able pupil of Guido Beni, whose second manner he followed, but he was latterly very slovenly in execution, cold, slight, and careless in drawing. One of his best works is St. Francis, in the Nunziata at Bologna. Ordinary Gessis and bad Guidos are said to be not unfirequently confounded. (Lanzi.)
GHERARDI, Cristofano, called Doceno dal Borgo, b. 1500, d. 1553. Florentine School. He was a native of Borgo. S. Sepolcro, and a scholar of Raffaello dal Colle. He was an excellent fresco-painter, and assisted Vasari in his numerous works. He also painted arabesques and other ornamental work. One of his chief works is the Visit of Mary to Elizabeth, in the Church of San Domenico, at Citta di Castello, besides many others at Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, &c., chiefly under the direction of Vasari. Vasari, in his "Lives," gives Doceno a great character as a painter, and Cosmo I. had placed on his tomb in San Francesco, of his native place, Pingendi arte pre stantissimus.
GHERARDINI Alessandro, b. at Florence, 1655, d. at Leghorn, 1723. Tuscan School. Scholar of Alessandro Rossi. There is a picture of the Crucifixion, considered his master-piece, in the Monastery of the Augustines, at Candeli: at Florence, in the convent of St. Mark, frescoes from the Life of St Anthony. (Lanzi.)
GHEZZI, Guiseppe, Cav., b. near Ascoli, 1634, d. at Rome, 1721. Roman School. The son of Sebastiano Ghezzi, and an imitator of Pietro da Cortona, in whose style he executed many frescoes in the Roman churches. He was the first perpetual secretary to the Academy of St. Luke at Rome.
