A guide to the paintings in the churches and minor museums of Florence; a critical catalogue, with quotations from Vasari (1908)
Cruttwell, Maud, Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574 · London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton & co. · leaf 111
elow, the Birth ofthe Baptist, and below again the Feast of Herod andthe Dance of Salome. For this chapel, according toVasari, Spinello painted the altar-piece, now lost.(Vas. i. 680.) FOURTH TRANSEPT CHAPEL 97 **(4th Chapel. Cappella Bardi.) GIOTTO.Scenes from the Life of S. Francis. FR. In S.… … The Death of S. FrancisGiotto. S. Croce. are the bell-ropes, is the life of S. Francis, for whosedeath a number of Frati show very befittingly theemotion of weeping. (Vas. i. 373.) The frescoes were probably painted after 1310 forRidolfo de Bardi, whose son Giovanni belonged tothe Franciscan Order.…
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