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26. Domenico Fetti: Melancholia. Venice, Gallerie dell'Accademia emerge and dissolve more convincingly and less abruptly in a palpable atmosphere in the Budapest picture, contributing to the overall lyrical tenor. Overall, the brushwork in Fetti's paintings is thicker, bolder, less tight, more vivid, animated and independent of forms with a tendency to strongly self-declarative flashes of the paint brush. In his 1990 monograph on Domenico Feti, Eduard Safarik, thus placed the Budapest work among "Dipinti di incerta o erronea attribuzione" and indexed as "già attr. a Domenico Fetti".

14 The attribution to Sigismondo Coccapani

15 (1583-1642) has a distinguished history but is no longer considered tenable. Coccapani was a Florentine student of Cigoli, whom he assisted in Rome between 1610 and 1612. Not surprisingly, Fetti was also associated with Cigoli's studio at about that time, and both were influenced to varying 14 Safarik, 1990 (n. 13) no. A

14 , p. 301. 1:1 The name appears in the literature in variant spellings; e.g. Coccapanni.