Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10): Bastiano to Taddeo ZuccheroVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10): Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
On the side-walls are four other scenes, two
to each wall, and each is divided off by the cornice that forms the
impost of the arch upon which rests the groined vaulting of the chapel.
In one is S. Helen causing the Holy Cross and the two others to be drawn
up from a well; and in the second is that of the Saviour healing a sick
man. Of the pictures below, in that on the right hand is the same S.
Helen recognizing the Cross of Christ because it restores to life a
corpse upon which it is laid; to the nude flesh of which corpse Daniello
devoted extraordinary pains, searching out all the muscles and seeking
to render correctly all the parts of the body, as he also did in those
who are placing the Cross upon it, and in the bystanders, who are all
struck with amazement by the sight of that miracle. And, in addition,
there is a bier of bizarre shape painted with much diligence, with a
skeleton embracing it, executed with great care and with beautiful
invention. In the other picture, which is opposite to the first, he
painted the Emperor Heraclius walking barefoot and in his shirt, and
carrying the Cross of Christ through the gate of Rome, with men, women,
and children kneeling, who are adoring it, many lords in his train, and
a groom who is holding his horse. Below each scene, forming a kind of
base, are two most beautiful women in chiaroscuro, painted in imitation
of marble, who appear to be supporting those scenes. And under the first
arch, on the front side, he painted on the flat surface, standing
upright, two figures as large as life, a S. Francesco di Paola, the head
of the Order that administers the above-named church, and a S. Jerome
robed as a Cardinal, which are two very good figures, even as are those
of the whole work, which Daniello executed in seven years, with
incalculable labour and study.
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