The painters of Florence from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century . h thesum originally proposed. Ghirlandajo, who seemsto have been singularly indifferent to gain, madeno objection, but afterwards his patrons consciencereproached him for his want of liberality, and whenthe painter was ill at Pisa, in 1492, he sent him agift of 100 florins. These twenty-one subjectshave been much injured by damp, and restorationand the hand of inferior assistants is plainly seenin many of the best preserved portions. But as asplendid illustration of Florentine life, the wholeseries is of rare interest. On
The painters of Florence from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century . h thesum originally proposed. Ghirlandajo, who seemsto have been singularly indifferent to gain, madeno objection, but afterwards his patrons consciencereproached him for his want of liberality, and whenthe painter was ill at Pisa, in 1492, he sent him agift of 100 florins. These twenty-one subjectshave been much injured by damp, and restorationand the hand of inferior assistants is plainly seenin many of the best preserved portions. But as asplendid illustration of Florentine life, the wholeseries is of rare interest. On the one hand we havethe public and official life of the Tornabuoni, theirstately banquets and processions; on the other, wecatch a glimpse of their private and domestic the guests seated at Herods feast, in the crowdswho throng the temple court, we recognise theTornabuoni and their kinsmen, the partners of theMedici bank, Gianfrancesco Ridolfi, Roderigo Sassettiand Andrea de Medici. On one side we have agroup of famous humanists—Angelo Poliziano,Marsilio. FLORENTINE LADY.(S. MARIA novella)—DOMENICO GHIRLANDAJO. [ To face pa^e 236 14941 FRESCOES IN S. MARIA NOVELLA 237 Ficino, Cristoforo Landino and Lorenzos tutor, Gentilede Becchi; on the other, we see the painter, with hisaged father, and his brother David, and brother-in-lawSebastiano Mainardi, the assistants who helped inthe decoration of the choir. Giovanna degli Albizzi,the fair maiden who, on the i6th of June, i486,became the bride of Lorenzo Tornabuoni, is herein her stiff brocades and rich jewels, with her youngsister-in-law Lodovica and many noble dames, ontheir way to visit the mother and new-born her we enter the chamber where the motherlies on her couch, and friends are wishing her joy,while the nurse rocks the baby, and the maidsprepare its bath. We see the frieze of singing anddancing children on the wall, the elegant Renaissancecolumns of the loggia, and we note how, in his anxietyto disp
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