Identifier: artofpittipalace1903addi (find matches)
Title: The art of the Pitti Palace : with a short history of the building of the palace, and its owners, and an appreciation of its treasures
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs, 1866-
Subjects: Palazzo Pitti Painting
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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with an open book and a deter-mined expression on his face, awaiting his turn tomake reply. Peter Martyr is dressed in the Do-minican habit. Next him stands at the extremeright, St. Francis of Assisi, with his hand on hisheart, so that the stigmata may be seen. The otherfigures are St. Lawrence with the terrible emblemof his martyrdom, the gridiron. St. Sebastiankneels, facing the disputants, and Mary Magdalen,crouching at the feet of St. Francis, holds the boxof spikenard with which she so often appears. Asthe picture was painted for the Augustine friars, itis natural that Andrea should have chosen the mo-ment for representation when Augustine was ap-parently confounding his opponents. The intro-duction of the three saints who are not taking partin the argument illustrates the fact of the rightwhich the Augustines assumed to include withintheir order all saints between the first and sixthcenturies. Thus the figures of St. Lawrence, St.Sebastian, and the Magdalen are to be considered
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DISPUTABy Andrea del Sarto ; in the Hall of Saturn Ube Iball of Saturn 189 as complementary to St. Augustine in this composi-tion. There are very few symbols in the picture, buteach saint is distinguished in some way. St. Au-gustine was Bishop of Hippo from 395 to 430 a. d.,so he carries as his emblem the crozier. St. Au-gustine, as is well known, was the author of the City of God, and wrote also- his Confessions after his conversion, for his youth was one of dissi-pation and waywardness. St. Peter Martyr was a powerful and influentialpreacher, and no artist has ever drawn a more dig-nified and majestic presentment of him than thisfigure, which stands holding an open book. Hisnoble head is disfigured by the gash which is thesign of the death which he suffered. While he wasinquisitor general under Pope Honorius HI., hehad made many powerful enemies among certainVenetian grandees, whom he had delivered up tojustice without any consideration of their rank(which was too often a protection

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