Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 05 (of 10): Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo LottoVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 05 (of 10): Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
On the end wall of the Oratory of a Company in the township of Anghiari,
he executed on panel a Last Supper in oils, with figures of the size of
life; and on one of the two adjoining walls (namely, the sides) he
painted Christ washing the feet of the Apostles, and on the other a
servant bringing two vessels of water. The work is held in great
veneration in that place, for it is indeed a rare thing, and one that
brought him both honour and profit. A picture that he executed of a
Judith who had cut off the head of Holofernes, being a very beautiful
work, was sent to Hungary. And likewise another, in which was the
Beheading of S. John the Baptist, with a building in perspective for
which he had copied the exterior of the Chapter-house of the Pazzi,
which is in the first cloister of S. Croce, was sent as a most beautiful
work to Naples by Paolo da Terrarossa, who had given the commission for
it. For one of the Bernardi, also, Sogliani executed two other pictures,
which were placed in a chapel in the Church of the Osservanza at San
Miniato, containing two lifesize figures in oils--S. John the Baptist
and S. Anthony of Padua. But as for the panel that was to stand between
them, Giovanni Antonio, being dilatory by nature and leisurely over his
work, lingered over it so long that he who had given the commission
died: wherefore that panel, which was to contain a Christ lying dead in
the lap of His Mother, remained unfinished.
[Illustration: THE LEGEND OF S. DOMINIC
(_After the fresco by =Giovanni Antonio Sogliani=. Florence: S. Marco_)
_Anderson_]
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