Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi

Giorgio Vasari

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, by Giorgio Vasari This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 2, Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi Author: Giorgio Vasari Translator: Gaston du C. de Vere Release Date: June 11, 2008 [EBook #25759] Language: English *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EMINENT PAINTERS *** Produced by Mark C. Orton, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS SCULPTORS & ARCHITECTS1912BY GIORGIO VASARI: NEWLY TRANSLATED BY GASTON Du C. DE VERE. WITH FIVE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS: IN TEN VOLUMES PHILIP LEE WARNER, PUBLISHER TO THE MEDICI SOCIETY, LIMITED 7 GRAFTON ST. LONDON, W. 1912-14CONTENTS OF VOLUME II PAGE Berna 1 Duccio 7 Antonio Viniziano 13 Jacopo Di Casentino 21 Spinello Aretino 27 Gherardo Starnina 41 Lippo 47 Don Lorenzo Monaco 53 Taddeo Bartoli 59 Lorenzo Di Bicci 65 The Author's Preface to the Second Part 75 Jacopo della Quercia [Jacopo della Fonte] 89 Niccolò Aretino [Niccolò d'Arezzo OR Niccolò di Piero Lamberti] 99 Dello 105 Nanni D'antonio Di Banco 111 Luca Della Robbia 117 Paolo Uccello 129 Lorenzo Ghiberti [Lorenzo di Cione Ghiberti OR Lorenzo di Bartoluccio Ghiberti] 141 Masolino Da Panicale 163 Parri Spinelli 169 Masaccio 181 Filippo Brunelleschi [Filippo di Ser Brunellesco] 193 Donato [Donatello] 237 Michelozzo Michelozzi 257 Index of Names 273ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME II PLATES IN COLOUR Berna The Agony in the Garden San Gimignano 4 Duccio Central Panel: The Majestas Siena: Opera del Duomo 10 Duccio The Three Maries at the Tomb Siena: Opera del Duomo 10 Bernardo Daddi Altar-piece: Madonna and Child Enthroned Florence: Accademia, 127 26 Spinello Aretino The Death of the Virgin Siena: Pinacoteca, 125 34 Don Lorenzo The Annunciation Florence: Accademia, 143 58 Monaco Central Panel of Altar-piece: Madonna, Taddeo Bartoli Perugia: Pinacoteca 60 Child, and Angels Domenico Madonna Orans Siena: Chapel of the Refugio 64 Bartoli Lorenzo Di Bicci Madonna and Child, with a Donor Empoli: Gallery 70 Paolo Uccello The Battle of San Egidio London: N. G., 583 134 Masolino Da Madonna and Child Empoli: S. Stefano 166 Panicale Berlin: Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Masaccio The Adoration of the Magi 184 58a Brant Broughton: Rev. A. F. Masaccio Madonna Enthroned, with Angel Musicians 190 Sutton's Collection PLATES IN MONOCHROME Berna Madonna and Child Asciano: S. Francesco 2 Newhaven, U.S.A.: Jarvis Luca Di Tomè The Assumption of the Virgin 6 Collection Duccio The Madonna Enthroned Siena: Opera del Duomo 8 Duccio Triptych London: N. G., 566 12 Antonio Viniziano The Return of S. Ranieri Pisa: Campo Santo 16 Jacopo Di Casentino Tabernacle Florence: Arte della Lana 24 Spinello Aretino The Annunciation Arezzo: SS. Annunziata 32 Don Lorenzo The Coronation of the Virgin Florence: Uffizi, 1309 56 Monaco Taddeo Bartoli Polyptych Perugia: Gallery, 9 62 Donato (Donatello) David Florence: Bargello 86 Jacopo Della Detail from the Tomb: Head of Ilaria del Lucca: S. Martino 90 Quercia Carretto Jacopo Della Madonna and Child Bologna: S. Petronio 94 Quercia Matteo Civitali Tomb of S. Romano Lucca: S. Romano 96 Matteo Civitali Madonna and Child Lucca: Museo 98 Niccolò Aretino S. Mark Florence: Duomo 102 Nanni D'antonio di Madonna della Cintola Florence: Duomo 114 Banco Luca Della Robbia Cantoria Florence: Opera del Duomo 118 Luca Della Robbia Tomb of Bishop Federighi Florence: S. Trinita 120 Luca Della Robbia The Madonna of the Roses Florence: Bargello 122 Andrea Della Robbia Altar-piece Arezzo: S. Maria in Grado 126 Andrea Della Robbia The Annunciation La Verna 126 Giovanni Della The Visitation Pistoia: S. Giovanni Fuorcivitas 128 Robbia Paolo Uccello The Deluge Florence: S. Maria Novella 136 Paolo Uccello Portraits Paris: Louvre, 1272 138 Lorenzo Ghiberti S. John before Herod Siena: Baptistery 150 Florence: Paradise Gate, theFlorence: Paradise Gate, the Lorenzo Ghiberti Detail: The Fall of Jericho 156 Baptistery Lorenzo Ghiberti Florence: Paradise Gate, the See also at p. 200 Detail: The Creation of Eve 156 Baptistery below Masolino Da S. John the Baptist Castiglione d'Olona: Baptistery 164 Panicale Masolino Da Madonna and Child Bremen: Kunsthalle 168 Panicale Masaccio The Trinity Florence: S. Maria Novella 186 Masaccio The Tribute Money Florence: S. Maria del Carmine 192 Filippo Brunelleschi The Crucifixion Florence: S. Maria Novella 198 Lorenzo Ghiberti The Sacrifice of Isaac Florence: Bargello 200 Filippo Brunelleschi The Sacrifice of Isaac Florence: Bargello 200 Filippo Brunelleschi The Dome of the Cathedral Florence 216 Filippo Brunelleschi The Old Sacristy of S. Lorenzo Florence 226 Donato (Donatello) Poggio Bracciolini Florence: Duomo 240 Donato (Donatello) Judith Florence: Loggia dei Lanzi 242 Donato (Donatello) General Gattamelata Padua: Piazza di S. Antonio 246 Donato (Donatello) Madonna and Child Padua: S. Antonio 248 Donato (Donatello) 250See also at p. 86 Altar Relief: The Entombment Padua: S. Antonio above Michelozzo Palazzo Riccardi Florence 264 MichelozziBERNA MADONNA AND CHILD MADONNA AND CHILD (After the painting by Berna Sanese [da Siena]. Asciano: Church of S. Francesco) Burton View larger imageLIFE OF BERNA PAINTER OF SIENA If those who labour to become excellent in some art did not very often have the thread of life cut by death in their best years, I have no doubt that many intellects would arrive at that rank which is most desired both by them and by the world. But the short life of men and the bitterness of various accidents, which threaten them from all sides, snatch them from us sometimes prematurely, as could be seen in poor young Berna of Siena, who, although he died young, nevertheless left so many works that he appears to have lived very long; and those that he left were made in such a way, that it may well be believed from this showing that he would have become excellent and rare if he had not died so soon. In two chapels of S. Agostino in Siena there are seen some little pictures with figures in fresco, by his hand; and in the church, on a wall now pulled down in order to make chapels there, was a scene of a youth led to execution, as well made as it could possibly be imagined, there being seen expressed in it the pallor and fear of death, in so lifelike a manner that he deserved therefore the highest praise. Beside the said youth was a friar painted in a very fine attitude, and, in short, everything in that work is so vividly wrought that it appears, indeed, that in this work Berna imagined this event as most horrible, as it must be, and full of most bitter and cruel terror, seeing that he portrayed it so well with the brush that the same scene appearing in reality would not stir greater emotion. In the city of Cortona, also, besides many other works scattered in many places in that city, he painted the greater part of the vaulting and of the walls of the Church of S. Margherita, where to-day is the seat of the Frati Zoccolanti. From Cortona he went to Arezzo in the year 1369, exactly when the Tarlati, formerly Lords of Pietramala, had caused Moccio, a sculptor and architect of Siena, to finish the Convent and the body of the Church of S. Agostino in that city, in the lesser aisles of which many citizens had caused chapels and tombs to be made for their families; and there, in the Chapel of S. Jacopo, Berna painted in fresco some little scenes of the life of that Saint, and especially vivid is the story of Marino the swindler, who, having by reason of greed of gold given his soul to the Devil and made thereunto a written contract in his own hand, is making supplication to the Saint to free him from this promise, while a Devil, showing him the contract, is pressing him with the greatest insistence in the world. In all these figures Berna expressed the emotions of the mind with much vivacity, and particularly in the face of Marino, which shows on one side fear, and on the other the faith and trust that make him hope for his liberation from S. James, although opposite there is seen the Devil, hideous to a marvel, who is warmly speaking and declaring his rights to the Saint, who, after having instilled into Marino extreme penitence for his sin and for the promise made, is liberating him and leading him back to God. This same story, says Lorenzo Ghiberti, by the hand of the same man, was in a chapel of the Capponi, dedicated to S. Nicholas, in S. Spirito at Florence, before that church was burnt down. After this work, then, Berna painted a great Crucifix in a chapel of the Vescovado of Arezzo for Messer Guccio di Vanni Tarlati da Pietramala, and at the foot of the Cross a Madonna, S. John the Evangelist, and S. Francis, in most sorrowful attitudes, together with a S. Michelagnolo, with so much diligence that it merits no small praise, and above all by reason of having been so well preserved that it appears made only yesterday. Below, moreover, is the portrait of the said Guccio, kneeling in armour at the foot of the Cross. In the Pieve of the same city, in the Chapel of the Paganelli, he painted many stories of Our Lady, and portrayed there after the life the Blessed Rinieri, a holy man and prophet of that house, who is giving alms to many beggars who are round him. In S. Bartolommeo, also, he painted some stories of the Old Testament and the story of the Magi; and in the Church of Spirito Santo he painted some stories of S. John the Evangelist, and in certain figures the portrait of himself and of many of his friends, nobles of that city. BARNA: THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN