A guide to the paintings in the churches and minor museums of Florence; a critical catalogue, with quotations from Vasari . ici. 138 S. LORENZO *(Cappella Martelli.) FRA FILIPPO. The An- nunciation. /« S. Lorenzo in the Chapel of the Operai he painteda picture with an Annunciation! (Vas. ii. 6i8.) One of his best and most charming works. Againsta background of architecture and a garden going backin deep perspective, the Virgin half rises from her prayer-desk andturns towardsthe Archangel,a childish figure,kneeling beforeher. Her atti-tude, half kneel-ing, half stand-ing, in arrestedmoveme
A guide to the paintings in the churches and minor museums of Florence; a critical catalogue, with quotations from Vasari . ici. 138 S. LORENZO *(Cappella Martelli.) FRA FILIPPO. The An- nunciation. /« S. Lorenzo in the Chapel of the Operai he painteda picture with an Annunciation! (Vas. ii. 6i8.) One of his best and most charming works. Againsta background of architecture and a garden going backin deep perspective, the Virgin half rises from her prayer-desk andturns towardsthe Archangel,a childish figure,kneeling beforeher. Her atti-tude, half kneel-ing, half stand-ing, in arrestedmovement, re-calls that ofDonatellos Vir-gin in the An-nunciation of Left aretwo child angels,the one gazingout of the pic-ture of specialbeauty. In the Predella are three scenes fromthe life of S. Niccolo da Bari: the Martyrdomof two Saints prevented by the Saint, the Saintthrowing money to the daughters of a nobleman forcedby poverty to prostitution, and the resuscitation of threeyouths who during the famine have been killed andsalted for provision. The painting is well preserved,and the colour cool and AnnunciationFilippo Lippi. Lorenzo. LEFT AISLE 139 Left AisleBRONZINO. The Martyrdom of S. Loren-zo. fr. The fresco is confused in composition and bad indrawing. It was painted in his old age, and is pro-bably chiefly the work of assistants. It was stillunfinished when Vasari wrote of it. And because at his -present age of sixty-five years heis no less enamoured of things of art than when he wasyoung, he has undertaken finally to paint, as the dukewished, in the Church of S. Lorenzo, on the wall nearthe organ; in which work, excellent as he has alwaysbeen, he will beyond doubt succeed^ (Vas. vii. 604.) In a letter written from Pisa in 1565 to Bronzino,Cosimo I. approves of the plan to paint both wallsof the aisle. The other fresco was never executed,probably on account of the age of the painter, whodied seven years after. Sagrestia Vecchia (On Altar.) FLOR. SCH.
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