This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...that prince, who had not been able to obtain the body from the Spoletans for burial in Florence. So Filippo designed the tomb, and Lorenzo caused it to be made sumptuous and beautiful as is related elsewhere. Arrived at Rome, Filippo decorated a chapel in the Minerva for Cardinal CarafFa, painting scenes from ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...that prince, who had not been able to obtain the body from the Spoletans for burial in Florence. So Filippo designed the tomb, and Lorenzo caused it to be made sumptuous and beautiful as is related elsewhere. Arrived at Rome, Filippo decorated a chapel in the Minerva for Cardinal CarafFa, painting scenes from the life of St Thomas Aquinas, and some beautiful and ingenious poetical compositions, for which he had a natural talent. Here we see Faith taking captive Infidelity, all heretics and infidels. Beneath are Hope and Despair, with many other virtues and the opposing vices. St Thomas is seated in a chair engaged in a discussion, defending the Church against a school of heretics. Beneath him are the vanquished forms of Sabellius, Arius, Aver-roe's and others, gracefully dressed. Filippo's own design for this scene is in my book, as well as some others, done with a skill which is unsurpassable. Here also is the crucifix saying to Thomas as he prays, Bene scripsisti de me, Tkoma, with a companion, who stands amazed at hearing the crucifix speak. A panel contains the Annunciation, and on the walls is an Assumption, with the twelve apostles surrounding the tomb. This work has always been considered excellent and highly finished for a fresco. It contains a portrait of the Cardinal Olivieri Caraffa, Bishop of Ostia, who was buried here in 1511, and afterwards taken to Naples in his See. When Filippo returned to Florence he undertook to do the chapel of Filippo Strozzi the elder in S. Maria Novella, and he began it, but after doing the ceiling he had to return to Rome, where he made a tomb for the cardinal of stucco. He also did a small chapel next to this in plaster with some figures, one of which was by Raffaellino del Garbo, his pupil. The work was...
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