Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 07 (of 10): Tribolo to Il SodomaVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 07 (of 10): Tribolo to Il Sodoma
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
On the wall where the window is are two figures in fresco, on one side
the Virgin, and on the other the Angel, who is bringing her the
Annunciation, but so distorted, both the one and the other, that it is
evident that, as I have said, that bizarre and fantastic brain was
never content with anything. And in order to be able to do as he
pleased in this, and to avoid having his attention distracted by
anyone, all the time that he was executing this work he would never
allow even the owner of the chapel himself to see it, insomuch that,
having painted it after his own fancy, without any of his friends
having been able to give him a single hint, when it was finally
uncovered and seen, it amazed all Florence. For the same Lodovico he
executed a picture of Our Lady in that same manner for his chamber,
and in the head of a S. Mary Magdalene he made the portrait of a
daughter of Lodovico, who was a very beautiful young woman.
Near the Monastery of Boldrone, on the road that goes from there to
Castello, and at the corner of another that climbs the hill and goes
to Cercina (that is, at a distance of two miles from Florence), he
painted in fresco in a shrine Christ Crucified, Our Lady weeping, S.
John the Evangelist, S. Augustine, and S. Giuliano; all which figures,
his caprice not being yet satisfied, and the German manner still
pleasing him, are not very different from those that he executed at
the Certosa. He did the same, also, in an altar-piece that he painted
for the Nuns of S. Anna, at the Porta a S. Friano, in which
altar-piece is Our Lady with the Child in her arms, and S. Anne behind
her, with S. Peter, S. Benedict, and other Saints, and in the predella
is a small scene with little figures, which represent the Signoria of
Florence as it used to go in procession with trumpeters, pipers,
mace-bearers, messengers, and ushers, with the rest of the household;
and this he did because the commission for that altar-piece was given
to him by the Captain and the household of the Palace.
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