Fra Filippo Lippi . ^ DEPARTMENT Uf PRATO 137 as jewelled ornaments and decorations, lines andpatterns of stuffs and brocades, should reveal adegree of scrupulous exactitude not at all in keepingwith the broad style apparent throughout the rest ofthe work. Not even in the friars early paintings, inwhich the influence of the miniaturists is still at timesperceptible, do we find such exaggerated attentionpaid to similar inartistic minutiae. We may there-fore arrive at the conclusion that the master was notresponsible for this discordant note, and that he musthave confided to his assistant, Fra D
Fra Filippo Lippi . ^ DEPARTMENT Uf PRATO 137 as jewelled ornaments and decorations, lines andpatterns of stuffs and brocades, should reveal adegree of scrupulous exactitude not at all in keepingwith the broad style apparent throughout the rest ofthe work. Not even in the friars early paintings, inwhich the influence of the miniaturists is still at timesperceptible, do we find such exaggerated attentionpaid to similar inartistic minutiae. We may there-fore arrive at the conclusion that the master was notresponsible for this discordant note, and that he musthave confided to his assistant, Fra Diamante, whosepredilection for gorgeous jewellery we have alreadymentioned when describing the Madonna dellaCintola,the task of decking out his noble figures in all thiscarefully executed but absolutely superfluous the left wall of the Choir Fra Filippo hasillustrated the legend of St. Stephen, patron saintof Prato. The lunette containing episodes relativeto the birth and childhood of the saint is in an ev
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