In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . s, of that other painting priest ofSan Marco, Fra AngeHco, or Fra Giovanni da Fie-sole, as the Fiesoleans still call him. How his blueItalian sky of summer glorifies the whole picture. Returning to the room nearer the David,namely, the Sala di Perugino and the two Sale diBotticelli, we find a concentration of masterpiecesof the Tuscan and Umbrian masters. Here is FraFilippo Lippis very beautiful Coronation of theVirgin, with the artist himself in the picture. Heis on the right, with hands clasped and looking in-tently at his nun
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . s, of that other painting priest ofSan Marco, Fra AngeHco, or Fra Giovanni da Fie-sole, as the Fiesoleans still call him. How his blueItalian sky of summer glorifies the whole picture. Returning to the room nearer the David,namely, the Sala di Perugino and the two Sale diBotticelli, we find a concentration of masterpiecesof the Tuscan and Umbrian masters. Here is FraFilippo Lippis very beautiful Coronation of theVirgin, with the artist himself in the picture. Heis on the right, with hands clasped and looking in-tently at his nun of human feelings. Here also aretwo cherubim of Andrea del Sarto, spirits ofjust babies made perfect to quote an apt the wonderful portraits by Perugino of two Val-lombrosan monks. There is an Assumption bythis master of Raphael painted for the monastery atVallombrosa and containing a figure of San GiovanniGualberto, the picturesque founder of the forestmonastery. And Luca Signorellis strong and real-istic but most reverent Crucifixion. Also Lorenzo. The Pitti and Accademia 135 dl Credis Adoration of the Shepherds and HolyFamily and Angels. And, finally, here is the groupof paintings by the master whose work has made theAccademia famous and whose name, Sandro Botti-celli, is that most often mentioned among the paint-ers whose patrons were the Medici. The moonlight sonata of this artist, the Reignof Venus, or more familiarly the Primavera, isthe most beset picture in the gallery. It seems to befading a little, but perhaps it is only the waning ofthe moon over this fantastically beautiful group ofdream figures. Are these forms wholly human?Especially that wild leaping thing of the woods withthe leafy spray in her mouth? Have not Bocklinsh ilf-human, half-animal creatures of the Urwald aprototype in this Chloris of the dream painter of theRenaissance? The Primavera is flanked by two of FilippoLippis most delicate and exquisitely beautiful pic-tures, a Nativity and an A
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