Identifier: guidetopaintings1908crut (find matches)
Title: A guide to the paintings in the churches and minor museums of Florence; a critical catalogue, with quotations from Vasari
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Cruttwell, Maud Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574
Subjects: Art Painting, Italian
Publisher: London, J. M. Dent New York, E. P. Dutton & co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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and is still held in the highest veneration.*^(Vas. i. 455.) In a book of accounts called// BiadaiuolOf now in theBiblioteca Laurenziana, datingfrom 1300 to i335>is a mini-ature painting showing the pic-ture within a marble tabernacle.It represents the Madonna en-throned holding theChild seatedon her knee, with three Angelson either side. In the actualpainting the position of theChild is different, and theangels are four on either side.Milanesi, basing his theory ondocuments of payment to Ber-nardo Daddi, dated 1347,assumes that he is the painter, but that he worked over one of earlier date. Caval-caselie considered it to be by Lorenzo Monaco. Itseems, however, of earlier date, and shows the influ-ence of Giotto rather than of the Sienese. TheTabernacle of Orcagna, which enshrines it, is describedby Vasari at great length. (Vas. i. 605.) It is asuperb work, a mass of rich sculptures, gold mosaic,twisted pillars, and pinnacles. Around are carved
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MadonnaOr S. Michele. 1 These images were large figures of wax, clad in thecostumes of the donors, portraits of those who had beenhealed. In 1401, so encumbered was the church with them,that a decree was issued forbidding any further additionexcept of very important personages. 228 OR S. MICHELE scenes from the life of the Virgin, and at the back alarge pictorial relief of the Virgin giving her girdleto S. Thomas. Below this is inscribed: andreas CIONIS PICTOR FLORENTINVS ORATORII ARCHIMAGISTEREXTITIT HVIVS MCCCLIX. (On Pilaster right of 2nd Chapel, Right Aisle.)LORENZO DI CREDI. S. Martin ;beloWy the Annunciation. T.w. A fine figure, dressed in green and red. Mentionedby Vasari, who confuses the Saint with that of Soglianiopposite, calling it S. Bartholomew. LorenzOy then a youth, fainted on a pilaster of OrS. Michele a S. Bartholomew.^ (Vas. iv. 567.) SOGLIANI. S. Bartholomew. O.w. He -painted in the Church of S. Michele in Ortefor the Guild of Vintners a 5. Martin in oil in thehabi

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