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Title: A guide to the paintings in the churches and minor museums of Florence; a critical catalogue, with quotations from Vasari
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Cruttwell, Maud Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574
Subjects: Art Painting, Italian
Publisher: London, J. M. Dent New York, E. P. Dutton & co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e isle of Patmos, and in the sky are seen his visionsof the Revelation—Christ armed with a sickle, anangel, a dragon, and a child in a cradle. Below is theResuscitation of Drusiana, and below again the Ascen-sion of the Saint to heaven. This last is exceedinglyfine, and not even the repaint has robbed the noblefigures of the Orientals, bending over the empty tomb,and gazing upward at the Saint, of their dignity. On the left wall, at the top, is the Expulsion ofZacharias from the Temple, and below, 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. Grace are jour chapels painted by the handof Giotto, three between the Sacristy and the large Ghapeland one on the other side. In the first of the three.,which is that of Messer Ridolfo de Bardi, in which
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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. The whitewash was removedin 1853, and the restoration was done by an artistbetter acquainted with the style of Giotto than hewho restored the Cappella Peruzzi, but the frescoesare entirely repainted. On the right, at the top, S. G 98 S. CROCE Francis presents the rules of his Order to PopeHonorius. Below, he undergoes the ordeal by firebefore the Sultan—a superb composition, in which thefigures have great beauty and dignity. Below is thedeathbed of the Saint and his apparition to the Bishopof Assisi, to assure him of the truth of the Stigmata.On the left, at the top, is S. Francis renouncing theworldly life and being clothed by the Bishop of Assisi.

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