The painters of Florence from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century . ll themembers of his family looked kindly on the way-ward artist, and not only employed him to paintpictures for their own houses and chapels, but senthis works as gifts to the Pope and the king of their powerful influence, he was appointedrector of S. Quirico, at Legnaia, in 1442, and tenyears later became chaplain to the nuns of S. Niccol6in Florence. Among the first works which Lippipainted for the Medici Palace were the two charminglunettes of the Seven Saints and of the Annun-ciation in the National Gal
The painters of Florence from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century . ll themembers of his family looked kindly on the way-ward artist, and not only employed him to paintpictures for their own houses and chapels, but senthis works as gifts to the Pope and the king of their powerful influence, he was appointedrector of S. Quirico, at Legnaia, in 1442, and tenyears later became chaplain to the nuns of S. Niccol6in Florence. Among the first works which Lippipainted for the Medici Palace were the two charminglunettes of the Seven Saints and of the Annun-ciation in the National Gallery. The patron Saintsof the family, Cosimo and Damiano, figure prominentlyin the first group, and the Annunciation bears thebadge of the Medici—three feathers held together bya ring. Both of these little paintings are executedwith the brilliancy and finish of a miniature, andare among the most exquisite examples of temperain existence. The same freshness and charm dis-tinguish the youthful Virgin adoring the Childsleeping on the flowery meadow with the little St,. MADONNA ADORING THE CHILD (ACCADEMIA).FRA FILIPPO LIPPI. [TV /cue pase 146 1469] EARLY MADONNAS 147 John in the background, which Fra Lippo paintedfor Cosimos wife. This subject is repeated with afigure of St. Bernard and a finely wooded landscapein the background, in a lovely picture at Berlin,which may have been the altar-piece that onceadorned the chapel in the Medici Palace, whereBenozzo Gozzoli painted his frescoes of the Journeyof the Three Kings to Bethlehem. It was evidentlya favourite with the Medici, and we find a thirdversion in another altar-piece which Fra Lippo paintedby their command, for the nunnery of of all the works which he executed for thesegenerous patrons, the best-known is the delightfullittle Uffizi picture of two boy-angels holding upthe Child before his Mother, who sits with claspedhands, in front of an open window. The muslinfrills of the fair-haired Virgins veil, the chubb
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