A history of painting in Italy : Umbria, Florence and Siena from the second to the sixteenth century . ANNUNCIATIONBy Taddeo BartoliFrom a picture in the Siena Gallery III—To face page 150. III.] TADDEO BARTOLI AT PADUA 151 informed of Taddeo Bartolis visits to Genoa in 1393 and 1398,relates that Francesco of Carrara asked the government of Sienato lend him the services of the painter; and Taddeo in duecourse worked in the Cathedral and the Arena Chapel at Padua.^Old guide books affirm that a series of frescoes by Taddeo stillexist in the choir of the Arena chapel.^ At the first glance thesepa
A history of painting in Italy : Umbria, Florence and Siena from the second to the sixteenth century . ANNUNCIATIONBy Taddeo BartoliFrom a picture in the Siena Gallery III—To face page 150. III.] TADDEO BARTOLI AT PADUA 151 informed of Taddeo Bartolis visits to Genoa in 1393 and 1398,relates that Francesco of Carrara asked the government of Sienato lend him the services of the painter; and Taddeo in duecourse worked in the Cathedral and the Arena Chapel at Padua.^Old guide books affirm that a series of frescoes by Taddeo stillexist in the choir of the Arena chapel.^ At the first glance thesepaintings might be thought as old as the beginning of the fifteenthcentury, yet they do not look like the production of a master asimportant as Bartoli. They are, however, injured by time anddust, and on close inspection they reveal forms of compositionsimilar to those of Taddeo in San Francesco of Pisa and thepublic palace at Siena. The subjects are these:— In the lunette on the left side of the choir is a mere fragment ofthe Virgin hearing sentence of her approaching death from an angel;she is attended by three women and two saints. Beneath this theapostles visit the Virgin in her
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