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 215
lory ofthe Saints and Jesus Christ, and in the world below SPANISH CHAPEL 201 are the pleasures and vain delights^ in human -figures,chiefly of women seated^ among which is MadonnaLaura of Petrarca, portrayed from life, clad in green,with a little flame of fire between her breast and… … Triumph of the Church Militant(Detail of Fresco, Spanish Chapel) S. Maria Novella. them, near a knight of Rhodes, Messer FrancescoPetrarca, also portrayed from life, . . . For the ChurchUniversal he painted the Church of S. Maria del Fiore,not as it is to-day but as it was in the model and…
Art · Painting, Italian
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