Vaughan, Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp), 1870-1948 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 193
rezia Buti, whom the Virgin is said to portray. Thescenery is depicted with characteristic delicacy. Paintedfor the private chapel of Cosimo the Elder in the RiccardiChapel, probably about 1450. The fresco decoration of thechapel by Benozzo Gozzoli was completed some eight or tenyears afterwards,… … THE UFFIZI GALLERY 129 This striking composition is deservedly praised by Vasari.He notes how the artist was the first to ftaint his accessories,flowers, ornaments, etc., without enhancing the effect byraised plaster-work, gilt and coloured. The landscape, open-ing from the architectural garden…
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