. Florence and her treasures. e was painted, belonged. No. 1549. FiLiPPiNO Lippi. The Virgin Adoring theChrist-Child. The sunset glow, a rare quality in the paintings of theperiod which usually favoured high noon for their atmos-pheric effect, suffuses the scene. The green cypresses,upright like bronze pillars, set off the colour of the Virginsrobes, borrowed seemingly from the sky. The light is two-fold, irradiating both from the horizon and from the figureof the Christ-Child. Venetian School : First Hall Several unimportant paintings are omitted. No. 387. Paris Bordone. Portrait. A good port


. Florence and her treasures. e was painted, belonged. No. 1549. FiLiPPiNO Lippi. The Virgin Adoring theChrist-Child. The sunset glow, a rare quality in the paintings of theperiod which usually favoured high noon for their atmos-pheric effect, suffuses the scene. The green cypresses,upright like bronze pillars, set off the colour of the Virginsrobes, borrowed seemingly from the sky. The light is two-fold, irradiating both from the horizon and from the figureof the Christ-Child. Venetian School : First Hall Several unimportant paintings are omitted. No. 387. Paris Bordone. Portrait. A good portrait. Note the brushwork of the furred also to Bernardino Licinio. No. 614. Att. to Titian. Portrait of Giovanni DeiMedici. The ascription of this portrait to Titian cannot be is most likely a school copy of the lost original. Giovannidei Medici (1498-1526) was a descendant of Lorenzo, theyounger brother of Cosimo the Elder, and the ancestor ofthe Grand-Ducal line. A soldier of fortune in the fullest. THE HOLY FAMILYFront the painting by Ltica Signorelli in the Uffizi Gallery THE UFFIZI GALLERY 131 sense of the word, he met his death at Mantua fighting theSpaniards. His son Cosimo succeeded to the Dukedom ofFlorence after the murder in 1537 of Alessandro dei No. 585. School of Tintoretto. Portrait. Formerly attributed to No. 609. Copy of Titian. The Battle of A copy of Titian ; large painting of the battle of Cadore,which was destroyed by fire in 1570 in the Ducal Palace atVenice. No. 615. Tintoretto. Portrait. Tintoretto portrays old age with singular felicity. Notethe furred robe falling in stately folds. No. 589. Paolo Veronese. The Martyrdom of An early work ; a sketch probably for the large altar-piecein the Church of S. Justina, at Padua. No. 638. Tintoretto. Portrait of Sansovino. The celebrated Venetian sculptor and architect JacopoTatti, surnamed Sansovino (1479-1570), was born in ye


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