The art of the Pitti Palace : with a short history of the building of the palace, and its owners, and an appreciation of its treasures . me to their parents. The at-tributes of St. Niccolo are three balls — someclaim that they are intended to represent threepurses of gold which he threw in at the window of ahouse to save three unhappy girls from ruin; somesay that they are three loaves of bread which kepta poor widow from starving; some say that theysignify the Trinity. St. Niccolo died in 326. Hisremains were taken to Bari, in 1084, by some enter-prising merchants, who had heard of the miracl
The art of the Pitti Palace : with a short history of the building of the palace, and its owners, and an appreciation of its treasures . me to their parents. The at-tributes of St. Niccolo are three balls — someclaim that they are intended to represent threepurses of gold which he threw in at the window of ahouse to save three unhappy girls from ruin; somesay that they are three loaves of bread which kepta poor widow from starving; some say that theysignify the Trinity. St. Niccolo died in 326. Hisremains were taken to Bari, in 1084, by some enter-prising merchants, who had heard of the miracleswhich the sacred body had wrought, and who wentand helped themselves to the relics unchallenged,the town having been recently devastated by the Sar-acens. The picture was painted for the Cardinal ofCortona, and was placed in the Church of St. Anto-nio del Poggio in that city. The grand Duke Fer-dinand II. bought it from Cosimo Passerini in 1639,and it was taken to the Pitti Gallery. Bilivertis Tobias and the Angel, hanging abovethe door, is one of his finest works. Giovanni Bil-iverti was a Florentine living between 1576 and k. TOBIAS AND THE ANGELBy Biliverti; in the Hall of the Iliad XTbe iball ot tbe irita5 219 1644, and a pupil of Cigoli. This picture waspainted in 1612 for Giovanni Cerretani, a member ofthe Florentine Senate. The Grand Duke Leopold11. bought it from the artist Accia for 250 often accused of being affected and man-nered (for it belongs to the decadent school), it hasa definite charm, even though that charm be some-what dramatic. The picture represents Tobias andthe Angel. As the story is told in the Apocrypha,it is probably unfamiliar to many readers. An out-line of it will serve to interpret Bilivertis paint-ing. Tobias, the son of Tobit, had gone forth tomarry a wife, leaving at home his father, whosuffered from blindness. While the youth was onhis journey, accompanied by a stranger who was inreality the Archangel Raphael, he came to
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