A history of painting . IX BOTTICELLI 1444 - 1510 FLORENTINE SCHOOL GIOVANNA DEGLI ALBIZZI AND THE THREEGRACES (Giovanna Albizzi et les Trois Graces ou les Vertus) (Louvre) To the right Giovanna, a young woman in a red-brown dress, wearinga white veil on her golden hair and a necklace of pearls round her neck,advances towards four maidens clad in delicately-tinted robes. She holdsin her outstretched hands a white linen cloth into which the four maidensthrow flowers symbolic of the Virtues. Fiesco painting detached from the wall. 7 ft. 3 in. x y ft. 4 in.,2-iz x 2-84).. 4 5 o CHAPTER XI WHICH S
A history of painting . IX BOTTICELLI 1444 - 1510 FLORENTINE SCHOOL GIOVANNA DEGLI ALBIZZI AND THE THREEGRACES (Giovanna Albizzi et les Trois Graces ou les Vertus) (Louvre) To the right Giovanna, a young woman in a red-brown dress, wearinga white veil on her golden hair and a necklace of pearls round her neck,advances towards four maidens clad in delicately-tinted robes. She holdsin her outstretched hands a white linen cloth into which the four maidensthrow flowers symbolic of the Virtues. Fiesco painting detached from the wall. 7 ft. 3 in. x y ft. 4 in.,2-iz x 2-84).. 4 5 o CHAPTER XI WHICH SHOWS THE KINSHIP OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE There arose in Florence, about the middle fourteen- WHICHhundreds, a group of painters who had served their early SHOWSapprenticeship in the goldsmiths shops. THE KIN- SHIP OFANTONIO POLLAIUOLO and PIERO POLLAIUOLO PAINTING 1429 - I498 H43 r496 AND The two brothers Pollaiuolo were born in Florence; SCULP-the elder, Antonio Pollaiuolo, being apprenticed by his XUREfather to a goldsmith, one Bartoluccio, who was stepfatherto the famous sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, him who wroughtthe gates to the Baptistery of Florence which were to winMichelangelos praise in the years to come, as being worthyto set at the entrance to Paradise; and it was to assist inthe modelling of some of the ornaments of these gates thatyoung Antonio Pollaiuolo was employed. Antonio Pollaiuolowas soon a goldsmith working on his own account, andwas to become a famous sculptor in bronze. To that fameCellini paid his weighty tribute that Pollaiuolos design
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