In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . specially successful in the amal-gamation of sculpture, preferably low relief work,with architectural elements. He uses such a nicetyof taste that the monument or altar so made is notsculpture, but has the true artistic unity of a poemor of a musical composition. But exactly this, itseems to me, can be said as truthfully of each ofthe men composing the group of hill-side , this is precisely that characteristic which,common to them all, distinguishes them from theirTuscan confreres. Minos works in Florence are, be
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . specially successful in the amal-gamation of sculpture, preferably low relief work,with architectural elements. He uses such a nicetyof taste that the monument or altar so made is notsculpture, but has the true artistic unity of a poemor of a musical composition. But exactly this, itseems to me, can be said as truthfully of each ofthe men composing the group of hill-side , this is precisely that characteristic which,common to them all, distinguishes them from theirTuscan confreres. Minos works in Florence are, besides the wonder-ful Salutati tomb and the beautiful altar-piece oppo-site it in the Duomo of Fiesole, the tombs of Ber-nardo Giugni and Ugo, Marquess of Tuscany, inthe Badia; a ciborium in the Medici chapel at SantaCroce; the altar in the Cappella della Misericordia(or del Miracolo) in little San Ambrogio, in whichchurch the artist is buried; a bust of Niccolo Strozziin the Strozzi Palace; a bust of Niccolo So-derini in the house near the Piazza Santo Spirito,. Photo. Tomb Monument of Ugo, Marchese di Toscana Mino da Fiesole: Badia The Hill-side Sculptors 195 once belonging to the Marchese della Stufa; a Ma-donna relief on the wall of the house in the ViaMartelli, opposite Palazzo Martelli (No. 8) ; somesmall pieces in Palazzo Alessandri (No. 15, ViaMargherita) ; and a number of reliefs and busts inthe Bargello. Among these last is one especially charming tondoof Madonna and Child, on gilded worked also at Prato, Empoli, Perugia, Rome,and elsewhere, and examples of his art are to befound in all these places. The Louvre has an ex-quisite little head of the boy St. John, and Berlinhas a bust of Niccolo Strozzi, as well as other pieces. Almost midway between Settignano and Fiesole,although lower on the hillslope than either, is thestonecutters village of Maiano. Here lived thestoneworker, Antonio da Maiano, with his three sons,all of whom came to be sculp
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