A complete illustrated catalogue to the National Gallery . occupied by a fine altar-piece, and several smaller paintings (Nos. 569-578), by Orcagna,one of the most distinguished of the early Florentines, whose frescoesand other works in Florence and Pisa are well known. Gallery XV 11. 107 569. The Coronation of the Virgm ; angels and saints in 9 ft. 7 in. X 13 ft. i in. 570-578. The Trinity &c., being portions of the above in separateframes, each 3 ft. | in. X i ft. 7 in. Purchased in 1857. (No. 578 is on the right, on the north wall.) 581. 5/. John the Baptist with St. John
A complete illustrated catalogue to the National Gallery . occupied by a fine altar-piece, and several smaller paintings (Nos. 569-578), by Orcagna,one of the most distinguished of the early Florentines, whose frescoesand other works in Florence and Pisa are well known. Gallery XV 11. 107 569. The Coronation of the Virgm ; angels and saints in 9 ft. 7 in. X 13 ft. i in. 570-578. The Trinity &c., being portions of the above in separateframes, each 3 ft. | in. X i ft. 7 in. Purchased in 1857. (No. 578 is on the right, on the north wall.) 581. 5/. John the Baptist with St. John and St. James; three figuressmall Ufe-size. Spinello. 6 ft. 2 in. x 5 ft. i in. (in compartments). Purchased in The Madonna and Child enthroned with various ScHiAVONE. An altar-piece in ten compartments. Purchased in is the only work by Giotto, the famous Florentine painter andsculptor of the thirteenth century; architect of the Campanile at Florence,whose finest decorative paintings are to be seen at Assisi and No. 276. I ft. 7iin. X I ft. ^\ in. 276. Two Apostles: Giotto. A fragment (saved from a fire) from one of the wall-paintings in thechurch of Santa Maria Novella at Florence; one of the last works otGiotto. Purchased in 1856. 701. ??The Coronation of the Virgin. Justus of Padua. A small and very interesting triptych, representing incidents in thelife of the Virgin, by one of Giottos followers. Centre, i ft. 5iin. xSfin.; wings, i ft. 5I in. X4J in. Presented by the Queen. 586. The Madonna and Child enthroned Fra Filippo nearly life-size; centre, 5 ft. 4 in. X 2 ft. 4 in.; sides, each4 ft. 8 in. X I ft. io|- in. Purchased in 1857. 10? Earliest Italian. 248. ^ The Vision of St. Bernard. Fra Filippo Lippi. 3 ft. 2 in. X 3 ft. 51 in. Purchased in best examples of Lippi are Nos. 666 and 667, in Gallery XIII.(see pp. 59 and 57). 596. The Deposition in the Tofnb. Marco Palmezzano. Half-figures, life-size. 3 ft. 3 in.
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