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 (1903)
Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs, 1866- · Boston : L.C. Page · leaf 248
ten 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… … 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…
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