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1276, DIED 1337 FRA ANGELICO, . . '' 1387, '' 1466 MASACCIO, . . . '' 1401, '' 1428 FRA FILIPPO LIPPI,. . '' 1412, '' 1469 SANDRO BOTTICELLI,. . '' 1446, '' 1610 DOMENICO GHIRLANDAIO, '' 1449, '' 1494 FILIPPINO LIP . . '' 1467, '' 1604 PIETRO PERUGINO, . '' 1446, '' 1624 LEONARDO DA VINCI,. . '' 1462, '' 1619 RAPHAEL, . . . '' 1483, '' 1620 MICHELANGELO, . . '' 1476, '' 1664 ANDREA DEL SARTO, . '' 1487, '' 1631 GIOVANNI BELLINI, . '' 1426, '' 1616 VITTORE CARPACCIO,. . '' 1470? '' 1619 GIORGIONE, . . '' 1477? '' 1610 TITIAN, . . . '' 1477, '' 1676 TINTORETTO, . . '' 1662, '' 1637 PAUL VERONESE, . . '' 1628, '' 1688
LIST OF PICTURES
IN COLOUR
THE RELEASE OF ST. PETER. BY FILIPPO LIPPI,
`The tall angel in flowing white robes gently leads St. Peter out of prison,' Church of the Carmine, Florence.
THE VISIT OF THE MAGI. BY GIOTTO, `The little Baby Jesus sitting on His Mother's knee,' Academia, Florence.
THE MEETING OF ANNA AND JOACHIM. BY GIOTTO, `Two homely figures outside the narrow gateway,' Sta. Maria Novella, Florence.
THE ANNUNCIATION. BY FRA ANGELICO, `The gentle Virgin bending before the Angel messenger,' S. Marco, Florence.
THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT. BY FRA ANGELICO, `The Madonna in her robe of purest blue holding the Baby close in her arms,' Academia, Florence.
THE ANNUNCIATION. BY FILIPPO LIPPI, `The Madonna with the dove fluttering near, and the Angel messenger bearing the lily branch,' Academia Florence. THE NATIVITY. BY FILIPPO LIPPI, `His Madonnas grew ever more beautiful,' Academia, Florence.
THE ANGEL. BY BOTTICELLI, TOBIAS AND THE ANGEL. `His figures seemed to move as if to the rhythm of music,' Academia, Florence.
ST. PETER IN PRISON. BY FILIPPO LIPPI, `The sad face of St. Peter looks out through the prison bars,' Church of the Carmine, Florence.
TWO SAINTS. BY PERUGINO, THE FRESCO OF THE CRUCIFIXION. `Beyond was the blue thread of river and the single trees pointing upwards,' Sta. Maddalena de Pazzi, Florence.
TWO SAINTS. BY PERUGINO, THE FRESCO OF THE CRUCIFIXION. `Quiet dignified saints and spacious landscapes,' Sta. Maddalena de Pazzi, Florence.
ST. JAMES. BY ANDREA DEL SARTO. `The kind strong hand of the saint is placed lovingly beneath the little chin,' Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
CHERUB. BY GIOV. BELLINI, `Giovanni's angels are little human boys with grave sweet faces,' Church of the Frari, Venice.
ST. TRYPHONIUS AND THE BASILISK. BY CARPACCIO, `The little boy saint has folded his hands together and looks upward in prayer,' S. Giorgio Schiavari, Venice.
THE LITTLE VIRGIN. BY TITIAN, `The little maid is all alone,' Academia, Venice.
THE LITTLE ST. JOHN. BY VERONESE, THE MADONNA ENTHRONED. `The little St. John with the skin thrown over his bare shoulder and the cross in his hand,' Academia, Florence.
IN MONOCHROME
RELIEF IN MARBLE BY GIOTTO, `The shepherd sitting under his tent, with the sheep in front,' Campanile, Florence.
DRAWING BY MASACCIO, `His models were ordinary Florentine youths,' Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
DRAWING BY GHIRLANDAIO, `The men of the market-place,' Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
DRAWING BY LEONARDO DA VINCI, `He loved to draw strange monsters,' Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
DRAWING BY RAPHAEL, `Round-limbed rosy children, half human, half divine,' Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
DRAWING BY MICHELANGELO, `A terrible head of a furious old man,' Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
DRAWING BY GIORGIONE, `A man in Venetian dress helping two women to mount one of the niches of a marble palace,' Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
DRAWING BY TINTORETTO, `The head of a Venetian boy, such as Tintoretto met daily among the fisher-folk of Venice,' Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
GIOTTO
It was more than six hundred years ago that a little peasant baby was born in the small village of Vespignano, not far from the beautiful city of Florence, in Italy. The baby's father, an honest, hard-working countryman, was called Bondone, and the name he gave to his little son was Giotto.
Life was rough and hard in that country home, but the peasant baby grew into a strong, hardy boy, learning early what cold and hunger meant. The hills which surrounded the village were grey and bare, save where the silver of the olive-trees shone in the sunlight, or the tender green of the shooting corn made the valley beautiful in early spring. In summer there was little shade from the blazing sun as it rode high in the blue sky, and the grass which grew among the grey rocks was often burnt and brown. But, nevertheless, it was here that the sheep of the village would be turned out to find what food they could, tended and watched by one of the village boys.
So it happened that when Giotto was ten years old his father sent him to take care of the sheep upon the hillside. Country boys had then no schools to go to or lessons to learn, and Giotto spent long happy days, in sunshine and rain, as he