The Pavement Masters of Siena (1369-1562)Cust, Robert H. Hobart (Robert Henry Hobart)
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The Pavement Masters of Siena (1369-1562)
Cust, Robert H. Hobart (Robert Henry Hobart)
Art -- Italy -- Siena; Duomo di Siena; Pavements, Mosaic
[222] Vacchetta vecchia di entrate et uscite dal 1471 all 1484.
Archivio dell’ Opera di Sta. Croce. (Miscellaneo MS. di n. 1549, p.
168, e seg. nella Biblioteca Pubbl. di Lucca.)
[223] E. Ridolfi. _L’Arte in Lucca, studiata nella sua Cattedrale._
(Lucca, 1882), p. 163, 164.
[224] The final payment is dated 9th June, 1477.
[225] _Mil. Doc._, vol. i., p. 53. The compiler in this note promises
to give more particulars about him further on, but does not do so; and
I can find nothing more elsewhere.
[226] Archivio de’ Contratti. Rogiti di Ser Filiziano Nerini. According
to Padre de Angelis (_Vita del Beato Pietro Pettinaio_, p. 124) the
artist received 900 florins, of four lire each, for the pavement and
altar decorations; and his designs on two sheets of paper, one green
and the other plain, signed with his name and the date 1504, are to be
found in vol. 69, in the Archives of the Piccolomini family.
[227] According to Padre Micheli (_La Guida Artistica_, p. 131) these
Virtues were executed from designs by Pacchiarotto, but I find no
authority for that assertion, which seems to contradict the statement
made by Padre de Angelis above.
[228] V. Lusini. _Storia della Basilica di S. Francesco a Siena_, pp.
143, and 282.
[229] _Mil. Doc._, vol. iii., p. 77.
[230] Faluschi MSS. _Chiese Senesi, A-F_, pp. 154 (on the back) and 148
(on the back).
[231] This border of waterfowl may possibly allude to the _Contrada of
the Oca_ (_the Goose_) of which Contrada Sta. Caterina was the especial
Patroness, she having lived in their ward and their chapel being in her
former home.
NOTE.--The tomb of the Cennini family, before the High Altar in S.
Francesco is a degraded seventeenth-century specimen of this kind of
work, but it is so debased in taste, and so injured by time, that I
hardly like drawing attention to it.
[232] An instance of this debased, but by some admired, artifice may be
seen in the church of S. Giorgio in Siena, on the memorial slab to the
artist, Francesco Vanni, executed in 1656, by his son, Michel Angelo.
[233] 1476, 9 Settembre. Archivio dell’ Opera del Duomo. Libro Giallo
delle tre Rose a 57.
[234] 1485 Archivio detto. Libro Nero dal 1461–1533 a 182.
[235] 1482. Archivio detto. Libro d’un Leone a 34 (on the back).
[236] See Charles E. Norton. _Church Building in the Middle Ages_, p.
176.
INDEX
_Abraham’s Sacrifice_, 88.
_Absalom, the Story of_, 10, 77, 79, 80, 151.
Adamo, Marchesse d’, 7, 74, 108.
Agostino, Guasparre d’, 12, 19, 117.
Alexander III. (Bandinelli), Pope, 19.
Alexander VII. (Chigi), Pope, 83.
Amidei, Carlo, 12, 63, 67, 87, 98, 142.
Antonio, Bernardino d’, 56, 134.
Antonio, Francesco di Ser, 105.
Antonio, Giacomo d’, 78, 114.
Aringhieri, Alberto, 10, 23, 25, 31, 53.
_Badges of Siena and the Confederate Cities_, 23, 24.
Bambagini Galletti, Pietro, 102.
Bartoli, Matteo di Giovanni, 7, 11, 45, 46, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65,
122, 144, 151.
Bartolo, Matteo di, 105.
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