. Verocchio. ndirect contrast with it, a production as trivial and vulgarin sentiment as it is feeble in execution. The attributionand title of this marble relief in the Bargello Collection,inscribed The Death of Lucrezia Pitti Tornabuoni, restsupon no surer basis than that a subject similar to thatrepresented—the death of a woman in childbirth—isrecorded by Vasari to have been executed by Verrocchiofor the Church of the Minerva, Rome. Much ingenuityhas been employed in the effort to identify the Bargellorelief with this work, to account for its presence inFlorence, and for its total dissimila
. Verocchio. ndirect contrast with it, a production as trivial and vulgarin sentiment as it is feeble in execution. The attributionand title of this marble relief in the Bargello Collection,inscribed The Death of Lucrezia Pitti Tornabuoni, restsupon no surer basis than that a subject similar to thatrepresented—the death of a woman in childbirth—isrecorded by Vasari to have been executed by Verrocchiofor the Church of the Minerva, Rome. Much ingenuityhas been employed in the effort to identify the Bargellorelief with this work, to account for its presence inFlorence, and for its total dissimilarity to any authenticwork of Verrocchio. I hope, however, to prove that therelief is not that of Verrocchio, which seems certainly tohave existed in the Minerva, but a free adaptation by hismediocre follower, Francesco di Sim one, executed to com-memorate the death of a lady of the Strozzi family. Nothing in art criticism is more surprising than theattribution to so scientific and imaginative an artist as. o -1- ?Sv, « o I—I ouw wu i—i XX
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