. A new history of painting in Italy, from the II to the XVI century; . re is no exampleof such a distribution of colours as now defaces the portrait ofDante.^ On the other hand, there are numerous examples of hoodsof one colour ; and one at least exists to prove that Dante usuallywore a red one. The Florentine Domenico Michelino painted aposthumous hkeness of the poet in 1465, Avhich may now be seenin S. Maria del Fiore, and there Dante wears a red-hooded cap and 1 Striped dresses and striped stockings were not so common in thefourteenth century, but they moved the observer sometimes to laugh
. A new history of painting in Italy, from the II to the XVI century; . re is no exampleof such a distribution of colours as now defaces the portrait ofDante.^ On the other hand, there are numerous examples of hoodsof one colour ; and one at least exists to prove that Dante usuallywore a red one. The Florentine Domenico Michelino painted aposthumous hkeness of the poet in 1465, Avhich may now be seenin S. Maria del Fiore, and there Dante wears a red-hooded cap and 1 Striped dresses and striped stockings were not so common in thefourteenth century, but they moved the observer sometimes to Sacchetti, in his 79th Novella, vol. ii., iibi sup., p. 29, amusinglyrelates how Boninsegna Angiolini was struck dumb with astonishment inS. Piero Scheraggio, when he saw certain figures there painted with stripedsocks. The audience retired wondering, one saying, The stripes are not soextraordinary as the Sienese dress, which is frequently half black and halfwhite. Of this white and black costume there are painted examples inthe frescoes of the
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