. A new history of painting in Italy, from the II to the XVI century; . LORENZO MONACO 449 of the altarpiece in the S. Trinita are most carefully executed ;and this is particularly the case with the Adoration of the Magi,which combines all the artists religious feeling and warm harmoniouscolour, with little to compensate for total flatness or for absence ofrelief by shadow.^ Two pictures in the rectory of the Collegio Cicognini at Pratodeserve attention. One represents the Virgin and Child between saints,^ and has allthe character of the master.^ The second is in the manner of one ofhis pupils
. A new history of painting in Italy, from the II to the XVI century; . LORENZO MONACO 449 of the altarpiece in the S. Trinita are most carefully executed ;and this is particularly the case with the Adoration of the Magi,which combines all the artists religious feeling and warm harmoniouscolour, with little to compensate for total flatness or for absence ofrelief by shadow.^ Two pictures in the rectory of the Collegio Cicognini at Pratodeserve attention. One represents the Virgin and Child between saints,^ and has allthe character of the master.^ The second is in the manner of one ofhis pupils, of whom we shall speak presently. Lorenzo died, as Vasari states, at the age of fifty-five, but we arenot informed of time or place.^ ^ In S. Jacopo sopra Arno, where an altarpiece by Lorenzo was pi-eserved,all that remains is a series of three pinnacles in the sacristy, in one of whichthe Saviour appears crucified, with two angels gathering the blood from thewounds of the hands, and in the two others are S. John and tlie Virgin ingi-ief. The fragments lately sold
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