Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . ft, by Gabbiani, a painter living at Florence, when wewere there; — the youngeft man of feventy years that I have-feen ; and a good mafter. — I hear iince that he died unfortu-nately ; painting, after that age, in a high part of fome church,,and unwarily ftepping back to view his work, he fell oft thefcaffold to the ground. There is-another room furnifhd with fmall pictures of mailers, Leonardo da Vinci, Caraeci, Barocci, & Holy Family, by Han. Caraeci : The countenance
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . ft, by Gabbiani, a painter living at Florence, when wewere there; — the youngeft man of feventy years that I have-feen ; and a good mafter. — I hear iince that he died unfortu-nately ; painting, after that age, in a high part of fome church,,and unwarily ftepping back to view his work, he fell oft thefcaffold to the ground. There is-another room furnifhd with fmall pictures of mailers, Leonardo da Vinci, Caraeci, Barocci, & Holy Family, by Han. Caraeci : The countenance of theChrift excellent. We faw a fine copy of this afterwards, doneby Fratolina, a female artift of Florence, who comes neareft toRofa Alba of Venice for miniature, and I think does at leadequal her for crayons in large. Another. Holy Family by Lucio Maffari, well performd,, butof a low thought: — theB. Virgin is warning linen: Chrift ts-wringing them ; and Jofeph is hanging them on the hedge todry. Abundance of excellent pieces there are in this room, toomany to enumerate,. Z A^ 303-. *7 tf /7Lir//s &rid# at ffltw^ /wvm? 3 O R E N E. T is not undefervedly that this place has obtaind the name_ of Florence the Fair. Nothing can be more pleafant thanits fituation, as we law it, and the country on all fides of it,from the top of the cupola of the dome. It ftands in themiddle of a fine fertile plain, all planted with vines, &c. thatagain encompafsd aimofl round with hills, whofe bottoms arevery agreeably enlivend with a great number of pleafant villasof the nobility, and other private houfes. The river Arno runsthro the city, and has four handfome bridges over it 5 one ofwhich is particularly celebrated : it was made by Ammanati vthe arches of it, after a rife of a few feet from the place whencethey fpnng, are turned in the form of a cycloid ;. a particularitywhich they fay no other bridge in the world has. It is all offine white marble ; and there are four ftatues of
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