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This cartoon, as will be told below, afterwards went to France. He made a portrait of Ginevra d' Amerigo Benci, a very beautiful work; and abandoned the work for the friars, who restored it to Filippino; but he, also, failed to finish it, having been overtaken by death.
So it happened that, in that wonderful spring of Filippo's life, Sandro too was at Prato, and worked there with Fra Diamante. And in after years when the master's little daughter was born, she was named Alessandra, after the favourite pupil, to whom was also left the training of little Filippino. Now, indeed, Sandros good old father had no further cause to complain.
We will next give some time to the study of the works of Ghirlandajo and Botticelli, who, with Filippino Lippi, who finished these frescoes which we have just been looking at, make a famous trio of Early Renaissance painters."
'How wilt thou know us apart if thou callest him Filippo? asked the proud father. 'Ah, he is such a little one, dear heart, Lucrezia answered gaily. 'We will call him Filippino, and then there can be no mistake. There was no more need now to seek for pleasures out of doors. Filippo painted his pictures and lived his happy home life without seeking any more adventures.
Vasari tells us that Lucrezia never returned, but remained with Filippo, bearing him a son, that Filippino "who eventually became a most excellent and very famous painter like his father."
In Piero di Cosimo we are more fortunate than the Uffizi; and we have Raphaels as important as those of the Pitti. We are strong too in Perugino, Filippino Lippi, and Luca Signorelli, while when it comes to Piero della Francesca we lead absolutely. But in Botticelli Florence wins.
Filippino Lippi Buffalmacco Mino da Fiesole The Dante quarter Dante and Beatrice Monna Tessa Gemma Donati Dante in exile Dante memorials in Florence The Torre della Castagna The Borgo degli Albizzi and the old palaces S. Ambrogio Mino's tabernacle Wayside masterpieces S. Egidio. Opposite the Bargello is a church with a very beautiful doorway designed by Benedetto da Rovezzano.
'To me it seems but strange and unpleasing. Music and motion are delightful, but this violent twisting of limbs to show the muscles offends my taste. 'Yet it is most marvellously skilful, said the young Leonardo thoughtfully. 'But totally unfit for the proper picturing of saints and the blessed Madonna, said Filippino, shaking his curly head.
How penetrating, how distinctive by the side of them seems Sandro's slim and tearful Anima Mundi shivering in the chill dawn! With what a strange magic does Filippino usher in the pale apparition of the Mater Dolorosa to his Bernard, or flush her up again to a heaven of blue-green and a glory of burning cherubim!
Thus we see the men and women of the Renaissance in the works of all its painters: heavy in Ghirlandajo, vulgarly jaunty in Filippino, preposterously starched and prim in Mantegna, ludicrously undignified in Signorelli; while mediæval stiffness, awkwardness, and absurdity reach their acme perhaps in the little boys, companions of the Medici children, introduced into Benozzo Gozzoli's Building of Babel.
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