A new history of painting in Italy : from the II to the XVI century . wo w KH -«<Hh-1 -•c LORENZO DI PIETRO PAULO 173 kept up to a certain mark by feeling rather than by any very importantacquirements or talent. A production of one who might claim to havebeen his son, once existed in Todi. Its predella bore the inscription : L NICOLAS FTJLGESTEAS FECIT . LATANTIUS FILIUS DELINKAVIT ANOMCCCCLXXXXVI. l This sketch of the progress of men exhibiting local peculiarities,modified by others greater and better than themselves, would be incom-plete without an allusion to one Lorenzo, respecting whom
A new history of painting in Italy : from the II to the XVI century . wo w KH -«<Hh-1 -•c LORENZO DI PIETRO PAULO 173 kept up to a certain mark by feeling rather than by any very importantacquirements or talent. A production of one who might claim to havebeen his son, once existed in Todi. Its predella bore the inscription : L NICOLAS FTJLGESTEAS FECIT . LATANTIUS FILIUS DELINKAVIT ANOMCCCCLXXXXVI. l This sketch of the progress of men exhibiting local peculiarities,modified by others greater and better than themselves, would be incom-plete without an allusion to one Lorenzo, respecting whom Rumohrpublishes a quaint record. The preservation of his name is due to thevanity of a citizen of Viterbo, Niccola della Tuccia, who having com-piled a book of the annals of his native place, could not resist the tempta-tion of inserting a passage in it relative to himself. He describes howNardo Mazzatosta, having caused a chapel in S. M. della Verita, outsideViterbo, to be painted by Maestro Lorenzo di Pietro Paulo, that artisttook him for a model in his fresc
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