hood of the Evangelist he painted a Banner, to be carried in their processions, which was esteemed to be a very beautiful thing. In the convent belonging to the Servites in the same city, are certain frescoes by this master, painted in three shallow niches of different chapels. One of these chapels, is that dedicated to San Giuliano, where there are stories from the life of the Saint, with a considerable number of figures and a dog, foreshortened, which has been greatly extolled. Above these, in the chapel of San Girolamo (St. Jerome), that saint is delineated, his body wasted, and with the head shaven; the figure well-drawn and very carefully painted. Over it is the Trinity with a Crucifix, which is also foreshortened, and so well done, that Andrea merits great praise for that work, he having executed the foreshortening in a much better and more modern manner than any master among those who preceded him had done. But this fresco can no longer be seen, a picture having been suspended over it by the Montaguti family. In the third chapel (which stands beside the last-mentioned, the place of which is beneath the organ), erected at the command of Messer Orlando de’ Medici, Andrea painted Lazarus, Martha, and Mary Magdalen.[1] For the Nuns of San Giuliano, he executed a Crucifix in fresco, over the door, with figures of Our Lady, San Domenico, San Giuliano, and San Giovanni, a picture which is considered one of the best that Andrea ever painted, and which has been commended by all artists.[2]
In Santa Croce, there is a work by this master in the chapel of the Cavalcanti family, a San Giovan Batista, and
- ↑ None of these paintings are now to be seen.
- ↑ Notwithstanding the many changes suffered by this building, the lunette over the door of the church has escaped destruction. —Masselli,
these personages is Filippo Scolari (see Life of Dello, vol. i.), called Pippo Spano, as we are informed by the inscription beneath. Farinata degli Uberti follows. Next comes the Grand Seneschal of the kingdom of Naples, Niccolo Acciainoli; beside whom is the Sibilla Cumana quæ prophetavit adventum Christi, as the inscription declares. Over the door, which is in the centre of the wall, is Queen Esther, and next to her is the figure of “Tomiri” with the following motto:—Thomir Tartaro vindicavit se de filio et patriam liberavit suam. The seventh figure is that of Dante, Petrarch stands beside him; and the last is Boccaccio. In the architrave of the door are the arms of the Pandolfini family, and the cornice presents a frieze decorated with figures of boys, most gracefully depicted; but this part of the work is unhappily much injured.” —Ed. Flor. 1849.
