Identifier: florencehertreas00vaug (find matches)
Title: Florence and her treasures
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Vaughan, Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp), 1870-1948
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ring iswarm and deep. No. 1179. Botticelli. S. Augustine. Vasari, describing the very beautiful picture in the pos-session of the Florentine merchant, Bernardo Vecchietti,ascribes this charming and perfectly preserved little com-position to Filippo Lippi. The attitude of the Saint in hisstudy is true to life ; note the pens and papers strewn at hisfeet. Compare with the fine fresco in the Church of Ognis-santi, which would seem to have inspired this little panel. No. 1154. Botticelli. Portrait of Piero di Lorenzo deiMedici (?). Discussion has been rife concerning the identity of thispersonage. Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni dei Medici—the second son of Cosimo the Elder—or again Giuliano theyounger brother of II Magnifico, murdered in the Pazzi con-spiracy have all been suggested. The resemblance, however,to a miniature portrait at Chantilly attributed to Gherardo,favours Piero, the elder son and luckless successor of LorenzoII Magnifico. The features are strongly marked. Note also
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JUDITHFrotnjhe fainting by )>otticelli in iJic Uffizi Galler THE UFFIZI GALLERY 125 the beautiful landscape background. We recognize thefamiliar profile of Cosimo the Elder in the gilt-plaster medal. No. 39. Botticelli. The Birth of Venus. This fine picture, one of the many nude females which,according to Vasari, Botticelli painted in the city, wasone of a series commissioned by Lorenzo di Pier-Francescodei Medici for his villa of Castello, probably about the years1484-5, after the artists return from Rome. Recent re-search traces the sources of Botticellis inspiration for thesemythological paintings to the poems of Messer Angelo Poli-ziano and Lorenzo II Magnifico himself, where exact descrip-tions of several subjects are to be found. The poetry ofmotion is here rendered with perfection in the flower-ladenatmosphere, and the sunlit waters, whereon the shell seemsactually to glide landwards. A graceful Nymph spreadsa flower-embroidered mantle before the goddess. No. 1289. Botticell

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