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Nevertheless there are here and there those among the faithful who continue to say, Ma sopra tutto nel buon via ho fede; E credo che sia salvo che gli crede. And since latterly the Russians have introduced their brandy, the number of believers is not small, who, on mounting their steeds, will take a stirrup cup of schnapps when offered.
Already in those large black eyes there was something melancholy and brooding, as there is in the eyes of all children who live only with their elders. So that thou didst not go, like the awful Florentine, "Sopra for vanita che par persona," "over thin shadows that mocked the substance of real forms," but rather it was the real forms that appeared as shadows, or vanita. What a digression!
In those days, likewise, he caused another to be vaulted beside the Chapel of the High Altar in S. Jacopo sopra Arno, for Stiatta Ridolfi; and these works were the means of bringing him more credit than his words.
In the church of S. Maria Sopra Minerva at Rome, where Galileo was afterwards compelled to sign his famous retractation, Filippino Lippi painted another triumph of S. Thomas, conceived in the spirit of Taddeo Gaddi's, but expressed with the freedom of the middle Renaissance. Nor should we neglect to notice the remarkable picture by Traini in S. Caterina at Pisa.
A disciple of Ridolfo, also, was Carlo Portelli of Loro in the Valdarno di Sopra, by whose hand are some altar-pieces and innumerable pictures in Florence; as in S. Maria Maggiore, in S. Felicita, in the Nunnery of Monticelli, and, at Cestello, the altar-piece of the Chapel of the Baldesi on the right hand of the entrance into the church, wherein is the Martyrdom of S. Romolo, Bishop of Fiesole.
"Quando si guarda a quella corretta eleganza di profili e di proporzioni, a quella squisitezza d'ornamenti, a quel certo sapore antico che senza ombra d'imitazione traspare da tutta l'opera" &c. "Sopra ornatissimo zoccolo fornito di squisiti intagli s'alza uno stylobate" &c. "Sotto le colonne, il predetto stilobate si muta leggiadramente in piedistallo, poi con bella novit
They were: A blocked-out statue of Saint Peter. An unfinished Christ with another figure. A statuette of Christ with the Cross, like the Risen Christ in Santa Maria Sopra Minerva; and Ten original drawings, one, a Piet
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