A guide to the paintings in the churches and minor museums of Florence; a critical catalogue, with quotations from Vasari . company with Bernardo his brother ; (Vasarimistook the abbreviation Nardo, really Leonardo) in which chapel . . he painted on one wall theGlory of Paradise with all the Saints and with variouscostumes and decorations of the time. On the other hepainted the Inferno with the bolgie, circles, and otherthings described by Dante, of whose works Andrea wasmost studiousr (Vas. i. 595.) The chapel is dedicated to S. Thomas frescoes were finished 1357. *(Altar Wall.) T
A guide to the paintings in the churches and minor museums of Florence; a critical catalogue, with quotations from Vasari . company with Bernardo his brother ; (Vasarimistook the abbreviation Nardo, really Leonardo) in which chapel . . he painted on one wall theGlory of Paradise with all the Saints and with variouscostumes and decorations of the time. On the other hepainted the Inferno with the bolgie, circles, and otherthings described by Dante, of whose works Andrea wasmost studiousr (Vas. i. 595.) The chapel is dedicated to S. Thomas frescoes were finished 1357. *(Altar Wall.) The Last Judgment. Above is the Almighty with the Angels sounding thetrumpets. Left, kneels the Virgin with the Apostlesand Saints, and below an Angel assists the dead torise from the tombs. Right, a devil drags away thedamned. *(Left Wall.) Paradise. At the top Christ crowns the Virgin, surrounded by acrowd of Saints and Angels, and below stand theBlest, whose faces have mostly the individuality of STROZZI CHAPEL 191 portraits. A figure in red to the right seems intendedfor Dante. The innovation and progress made by. ParadiseOrcaqna. S. Maria Novella. Orcagna in space-filling, on the divided scenes of theGiottesques, is remarkable. Some of the figures havegreat beauty. All are, however, much repainted. 192 S. MARIA NOVELLA (Right Wall.) The Inferno. The composition follows closely the Dantesque con-ception. It is the work of Leonardo Orcagna, and ismuch inferior to the Paradise. The frescoes were entirely repainted in the XVIIIcentury, and probably little but composition and out-lines remain of the original work. *(On Altar.) ANDREA ORCAGNA. ChristEnthroned with Saints. 1357. This and the frescoes are the only surviving paintedwork of Orcagna. In the centre Christ, with Saintson either side, gives the Keys to S. Peter, who kneelsin the foreground, and a Book to S. Thomas Aquinas,whom the Virgin presents. These two figures, solidlymodelled and true to life, break up the con
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