CHAPTER X.
THE EPIGONI Full Development and Decline of Painting--Exhaustion of the old Motives--Relation of Lionardo to his Pupils--His Legacy to the Lombard School--Bernardino Luini--Gaudenzio Ferrari--The Devotion of the Sacri Monti--The School of Raphael--Nothing left but Imitation--Unwholesome Influences of Rome--Giulio Romano--Michael Angelesque Mannerists--Misconception of Michael Angelo--Correggio founds no School--Parmigianino--Macchinisti--The Bolognese--After-growth of Art in Florence--Andrea del Sarto--His Followers--Pontormo--Bronzino--Revival of Painting in Siena--Sodoma--His Influence on Pacchia, Beccafumi, Peruzzi--Garofalo and Dosso Dossi at Ferrari--The Campi at Cremona--Brescia and Bergamo--The Decadence in the second half of the Sixteenth Century--The Counter-Reformation--Extinction of the Renaissance Impulse.
APPENDICES I .-- The Pulpits of Pisa and Ravello II .-- Michael Angelo's Sonnets III .-- Chronological Tables FOOTNOTES: [1] To the original edition of this volume..