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 241
is theory ondocuments of payment to Ber-nardo Daddi, dated 1347,assumes that he is the painter, but that he worked over one of earlier date. Caval-caselie considered it to be by Lorenzo Monaco. Itseems, however, of earlier date, and shows the influ-ence of Giotto rather than of the Sienese.… … MadonnaOr S. Michele. 1 These images were large figures of wax, clad in thecostumes of the donors, portraits of those who had beenhealed. In 1401, so encumbered was the church with them,that a decree was issued forbidding any further additionexcept of very important personages. 228 OR S. MICHELE…
Art · Painting, Italian
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