Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823-1886 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 441
etto Bonfigli, though Niccolo daFoligno and Fiorenzo di Lorenzo lay claimto the honour. At an early age he mayhave acted as assistant to Pietro della Fran-cesca (with whom, as with Luca Pacioli, hestudied perspective) in painting frescos atArezzo. Before 1475 or after 1478, the yearin which he… … now in the Louvre. In 1480 he was calledto Rome by Pope Sixtus IV. to paint in theSistine Chapel. Some of his frescos weredestroyed to make room for the Last Judg-ment of Michelangelo ; those which remainare the Moses and Zipporah, Baptism ofChrist, and Christs Charge to St. Peter, fin-ished in…
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