Dictionary of painters and engravers . sus an opportunity for becoming well acquaintedwith the peculiar characteristics of Vannis mannerat this comparatively late period of his develop-ment. Basing the study of his style upon thisimportant work, modern connoisseurship hasrecently been enabled to reconstruct in a greatmeasure Andreas half-forgotten artistic person-ality, and to restore to him, as their true author,a number of works which have hitherto passedunder other and better-known names. Thus wehave in the church of San Francesco at Siena, twopaintings clearly by his hand—a large fresco,un
Dictionary of painters and engravers . sus an opportunity for becoming well acquaintedwith the peculiar characteristics of Vannis mannerat this comparatively late period of his develop-ment. Basing the study of his style upon thisimportant work, modern connoisseurship hasrecently been enabled to reconstruct in a greatmeasure Andreas half-forgotten artistic person-ality, and to restore to him, as their true author,a number of works which have hitherto passedunder other and better-known names. Thus wehave in the church of San Francesco at Siena, twopaintings clearly by his hand—a large fresco,unfortunately much damaged and restored, of theVirgin and Child Enthroned, generally ascribed toAmbrogio Lorenzetti; and a very striking pictureof the Madonna and Child, on panel, attributed toArnbrogios elder brother Pietro, which wasprobably once the central portion of a large altar-piece which Andrea is recorded to have paintedfor the Franciscans at about the same period inwhich he executed the great polyptych at Santo ANDREA VANNI. \Chapel of SS. Chiodi in the Church of San Dona to, Siena N MADONNA AND CHILD PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS. Stefano. Other works by the master are to befound in his native town, in the chapel of theSS. Chiodi, in San Giovannino della Staffa, inSanto Spirito, and in the Saracini Collection, aswell as in the church of the former monastery ofSant Eugenio, near Siena. Another of his works,held in great veneration as a sacred picture, is inthe pilgrimage church of Montenero, near England, the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridgepossesses a characteristic Madonna by his very charming example of Vannis art is to beBeen in a little picture of the Virgin and Child inthe collection of Mr. Berenson at Florence, towhom also belongs a very interesting panel of the1 Deposition by the master. But perhaps the mostattractive picture that can be attributed to Vanniis the beautiful free copy of Simone Martinisfamous Annunciation (now in the Uffizi), whichhan
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