Fra Filippo Lippi . Hanfstangl fhoto.] 15 \_i\atioital Gallery, London. THE VISION OF ST. BERNARD. OFUNIVERSITY JIaiifsUuigl//loio.] \_Berlin Gallery. THE MADONNA AND CHILD, 37 SECOND FLORENTINE PERIOD ji and pleasing. Time and unskilful restorations havegreatly damaged this picture, but the colouring,technique, and characteristic arrangement of thedraperies leave no doubt as to its authorship. It isprobably to this work that Vasari alludes when hestates that in the hall of the Council of Eight, inFlorence, is a picture of the Virgin with the Childin her arms, painted i

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Fra Filippo Lippi . Hanfstangl fhoto.] 15 \_i\atioital Gallery, London. THE VISION OF ST. BERNARD. OFUNIVERSITY JIaiifsUuigl//loio.] \_Berlin Gallery. THE MADONNA AND CHILD, 37 SECOND FLORENTINE PERIOD ji and pleasing. Time and unskilful restorations havegreatly damaged this picture, but the colouring,technique, and characteristic arrangement of thedraperies leave no doubt as to its authorship. It isprobably to this work that Vasari alludes when hestates that in the hall of the Council of Eight, inFlorence, is a picture of the Virgin with the Childin her arms, painted in tempera on a half tondoMore important than the preceding one is theMadonna and Child to be seen in the sacristy ofthe Innocenti at Florence, which may be regardedas the precursor of the great Uffizi panel. Thecomposition is almost identical, with the only differ-ence that the Child is upheld by one angel insteadof two, and the Mother, instead of being in an atti-tude of adoration, holds out her arms lovingly totake up her Son from the angels hands, while theChild clasps the hem of her mantle. Unfortunatelythis picture too has s

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