The art of the Uffizi palace and the Florence academy, together with that of the minor museums of Florence, with explanatory and appreciative comment on the notable works therein preserved, and their history and significance (1912)
Heyl, Charles Christian, 1874- · Boston, L. C. Page and company · leaf 126
ones of the conventionalChristian art, and his knowledge of classical lorewas unusual. Thus we find his work appeal-ing largely to the classical taste of the literati ofhis day, and he was soon engaged on largedecorative paintings of profane subjects. Perhapsthe most striking of these is his… … Ube Spirit of tbe (Siuattrocento 89 sancejiealing with a profane or secular subject. Itscomposition is variously thought to have been in-spired by a passage from the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius, or by one from the Rusticus orthe La Giostra of Politian, or possibly^ by stillanother from the Selve…
Galleria degli Uffizi · Accademia di belle arti (Florence, Italy) · Painting
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