Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 03 (of 10): Filarete and Simone to MantegnaVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 03 (of 10): Filarete and Simone to Mantegna
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
Over a door of the cloister of the Badia in the same city he painted a
S. Benedict, who is making a sign enjoining silence. For the
Linen-manufacturers he painted a panel that is in the Office of their
Guild; and in Cortona he painted a little arch over the door of the
church of his Order, and likewise the panel of the high-altar. At
Orvieto, on a part of the vaulting of the Chapel of the Madonna in the
Duomo, he began certain prophets, which were finished afterwards by Luca
da Cortona. For the Company of the Temple in Florence he painted a Dead
Christ on a panel; and in the Church of the Monks of the Angeli he made
a Paradise and a Hell with little figures, wherein he showed fine
judgment by making the blessed very beautiful and full of jubilation and
celestial gladness, and the damned all ready for the pains of Hell, in
various most woeful attitudes, and bearing the stamp of their sins and
unworthiness on their faces. The blessed are seen entering the gate of
Paradise in celestial dance, and the damned are being dragged by demons
to the eternal pains of Hell. This work is in the aforesaid church, on
the right hand as one goes towards the high-altar, where the priest sits
when Mass is sung. For the Nuns of S. Piero Martire--who now live in the
Monastery of S. Felice in Piazza, which used to belong to the Order of
Camaldoli--he painted a panel with Our Lady, S. John the Baptist, S.
Dominic, S. Thomas, and S. Peter Martyr, and a number of little figures.
And in the tramezzo[7] of S. Maria Nuova there may also be seen a panel
by his hand.
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