Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10): Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi — John Shaqi
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10): Berna to Michelozzo MichelozziVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10): Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
By his hand are the shrine in fresco which is on the corner of the
Convent of the Nuns of Foligno, and the Madonna and some saints that are
over the door of the church of that convent, among whom is a S. Francis
who is espousing Poverty. In the Church of the Order of Camaldoli in
Florence, also, he painted for the Company of the Martyrs some scenes of
the martyrdom of some saints, and two chapels in the church, one on
either side of the principal chapel. And because these pictures gave
universal pleasure to the whole city, after he had finished them he was
commissioned by the family of the Salvestrini--which to-day is almost
extinct, there being to my knowledge none left save a friar of the
Angeli in Florence, called Fra Nemesio, a good and worthy churchman--to
paint a wall of the Church of the Carmine, whereon he made the scene
when the martyrs, being condemned to death, are stripped naked and made
to walk barefoot over spikes strewn by ministers of the tyrants, while
they were going to be placed on the cross; and higher up they are seen
placed thereon, in various extravagant attitudes. In this work, which
was the largest that had ever been made up to that time, everything is
seen to have been done, according to the knowledge of those times, with
much mastery and design, for it is all full of those various emotions
that nature arouses in those who are made to die a violent death;
wherefore I do not marvel that many able men have contrived to avail
themselves of certain things that are seen in this picture. After these
he made many other figures in the same church, and particularly in two
chapels in the tramezzo.[6] And about the same time he painted the
shrine of the Canto alla Cuculia, and that which is on the house-front
in the Via de' Martelli; and, over the Martello door in S. Spirito, a S.
Augustine in fresco presenting the Rule to his friars. In S. Trinita, in
the Chapel of Neri Compagni, he painted in fresco the life of S.
Giovanni Gualberto; and, in the principal chapel of S. Lucia in the Via
de' Bardi, some scenes in fresco of the life of that Saint, for Niccolo
da Uzzano, who was portrayed by him there from the life, together with
some other citizens.
[Footnote 6: See note on p. 57, Vol. I.]
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