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Updated: May 29, 2025
We shall see farther symbolism of this kind, soon, by Simon Memmi, in the Spanish chapel. I cannot tell you anything definite of the two other frescos for I can only examine one or two pictures in a day; and never begin with one till I have done with another; and I had to leave Florence without looking at these even so far as to be quite sure of their subjects.
We ought to reconcile the tenor and la Clarina; otherwise the season will be ruined in Venice." The invitation was accepted. "Gondoliers!" called Cataneo. "One minute," said Vendramin. "Memmi is waiting for me at Florian's; I cannot leave him to himself. We must make him tipsy to-night, or he will kill himself to-morrow." "Corpo santo!" exclaimed the Duke.
I have seen Andrea Orcagna, Taddeo Gaddi, Giottino, Stefano, Simone Memmi men whose very colors I am not worthy to mix. And I have seen the aged Giotto, and he in turn was pupil to Cimabue, before whom there was no art in Italy, for the Greeks were brought to paint the chapel of the Gondi at Florence.
Memmi has retained the dress and imitated the general effect of the figure in the roof so faithfully that you suspect no difference of mastership nay, he has even raised the foot in the same awkward way: but you will find Memmi's foot delicately drawn-Taddeo's, hard and rude: and all the folds of Memmi's drapery cast with unbroken grace and complete gradations of shade, while Taddeo's are rigid and meagre; also in the heads, generally Taddeo's type of face is square in feature, with massive and inelegant clusters or volutes of hair and beard; but Memmi's delicate and long in feature, with much divided and flowing hair, often arranged with exquisite precision, as in the finest Greek coins.
Genovese, the famous tenor, could get in one season, by his warbling, the capital of an income on which this son of the Memmi could live this descendant of Roman senators as venerable as Caesar and Sylla. Genovese may smoke an Eastern hookah, and the Prince of Varese cannot even have enough cigars!" He tossed the end he was smoking into the sea.
In a picture by Simone Memmi, the Virgin seated on a Gothic throne receives, as the higher and superior being, yet with a shrinking timidity, the salutation of the angel, who comes as the messenger of peace, olive-crowned, and bearing a branch of olive in his hand.
If you enter by the door most to the left, or north, and turn immediately to the right, on the interior of the wall of the facade is an Annunciation, visible enough because well preserved, though in the dark, and extremely pretty in its way, of the decorated and ornamental school following Giotto: I can't guess by whom, nor does it much matter; but it is well To look at it by way of contrast with the delicate, intense, slightly decorated design of Memmi, in which, when you return into the Spanish chapel, you will feel the dependence for its effect on broad masses of white and pale amber, where the decorative school would have had mosaic of red, blue, and gold.
Fra Angelico and Ghirlandaio said all their feebler <i>confreres</i> dreamt of and a great deal more beside, but the inspiration of Simone Memmi and Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Sano di Pietro has a painful air of never efflorescing into a maximum. Sodoma and Beccafumi are to my taste a rather abortive maximum.
The only traces of former splendor now visible in the Papal pile are the walls and vaults of two small chapels, painted in fresco, so battered and effaced as to be scarcely distinguishable, by Simone Memmi. It offers, of course, a peculiarly good field for restoration, and I believe the government intend to take it in hand.
A large number of this dangerous fraternity is represented as a pack of hounds, fighting, pulling, biting, and howling most vigorously in a life-and-death-struggle with the wolves of heresy. In the centre of the composition are introduced various portraits. Lemonnier, 1846. It is also no longer believed that the pictures are the work of Taddeo Gaddi and Simon Memmi.
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