A guide to the paintings in the churches and minor museums of Florence; a critical catalogue, with quotations from Vasari . igion and Order of S. Domenicofighting against the heretics, symbolised by wolves,which assail some sheep, which are defended by dogsspotted with white and black, and the wolves repulsedand killed.^^ (The dogs symbolise the Dominicans—a play on the name.) There are besides some heretics,who, convinced in the dispute, tear their books, and,repentant, confess themselves ; and thus the souls passto the gates of Paradise, where are many small figuresdoing different things. In
A guide to the paintings in the churches and minor museums of Florence; a critical catalogue, with quotations from Vasari . igion and Order of S. Domenicofighting against the heretics, symbolised by wolves,which assail some sheep, which are defended by dogsspotted with white and black, and the wolves repulsedand killed.^^ (The dogs symbolise the Dominicans—a play on the name.) There are besides some heretics,who, convinced in the dispute, tear their books, and,repentant, confess themselves ; and thus the souls passto the gates of Paradise, where are many small figuresdoing different things. In Heaven is seen the glory ofthe Saints and Jesus Christ, and in the world below SPANISH CHAPEL 201 are the pleasures and vain delights^ in human -figures,chiefly of women seated^ among which is MadonnaLaura of Petrarca, portrayed from life, clad in green,with a little flame of fire between her breast and throat.^(Milanesi considers this figure to represent sensualpleasure.) There is besides the Church of Christ,and guarding it, the Pope, the Emperor, Kings, Cardinals,Bishops, and all the Christian Princes; and among. Triumph of the Church Militant(Detail of Fresco, Spanish Chapel) S. Maria Novella. them, near a knight of Rhodes, Messer FrancescoPetrarca, also portrayed from life, . . For the ChurchUniversal he painted the Church of S. Maria del Fiore,not as it is to-day but as it was in the model and designleft by the architect Arnolfo in the Opera, as a guideto those who had to continue the building after him,of which model, through the carelessness of the Operaiof S. Maria del Fiore, no memory would exist if Stmonehad not left it painted in this work. (Vas. i. 550-) He painted also besides Petrarch and Madonna Laura, 202 S. MARIA NOVELLA Cimabue, the architect Lapo, Arnolfo his son, andSimone himself, and in the ?person of the Pope, Bene-dict XI. of Treviso^ preaching friar, . . and near tohim Cardinal Niccola of Prato^ (Vas. i. 559.) These names cannot be accepted, and onl
Size: 2026px × 1234px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorvasarigiorgio15111574, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900
