Identifier: historyofpainti01macf (find matches)
Title: A history of painting... / with a preface by Frank Brangwyn
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: Boston : Dana Estes and Co.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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beautifulwoman died. Giovanna degli Albizzi, at the time shewas married to Lorenzo Tornabuoni, had been painted byBotticelli, and her features immortalised thereby in superb112 XIV FILIPPINO LIPPI 1457 - 1504 TUSCAN SCHOOL THE VIRGIN AND CHILD, WITH ST. JEROME AND ST. DOMINIC (National Gallery) This, the centre panel, shows the Virgin seated in the midst of a land-scape, with the Infant Christ at her breast. On the left kneels St. Jeromeclasping in his upraised hands a stone, with which he is about to beat hisbare breast; on the right kneels St. Dominic reading in a book and holdinghis emblem the lily. In the background are various incidents from the lifeof St. Jerome. The predelia is a Pieta with half figures of the Magdalenand St. Francis at either side. At the extreme ends are the arms of theRucellai family, for whom the picture was painted. Painted in tempera on wood. Centre panel 6 ft. 9 in. h. x 6 ft. i in. w.(2-056 X 1-853). Predelia 8 in. h. x 7 ft. 9 in. w. (0*205 ^^ 2-361).
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OF PAINTING frescoes wrought by him for the Villa Lemmi, and passed OF AN out of sight under the whitewash of neglect until some EXQUISITE thirty years or so ago, when they were discovered, on the MAKER OP whitewash being taken away, and were removed to the ^-^^^^^ Louvre, where they are now one of Frances most prized treasures. Giovanna Tornabuoni was fortunate indeed in her limners, for her portrait by Ghirlandaio, that used to hang on loan in the National Gallery in London, and has now passed into the possession of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, is one of the supreme achievements in the whole portraiture of the Italian Renaissance. The pure and exquisite profile, marked with all that strange grace and haunting distinction so inherent to the age, shows the ideal lady of quality who called forth the Florentine poets praises when the fourteen- hundreds were at their full. Amongst what were destined to be the last works fromGhirlandaios hand, was the large panel of the Visitation atthe Louvre

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