he adorned the recess above the high altar in the cathedral,[1] and performed various works in different parts of the city, as, for example, at the house of the wardens, where he depicted a story on one of the walls, representing King Charles portrayed from the life, who recommends the city of Pisa to the friendly consideration of the Florentines,[2] He also painted two pictures in distemper in the church of San Girolamo, for the Frati Gesuati, [3] that of the high altar, namely, and another.[4] In the same place there is, besides, a picture representing San Rocco and San Sebastiano, from the hand of this master; it was presented to those fathers by I know not which of the Medici, and they have added to it, most probably on that account, the arms of Pope Leo X.[5]
Domenico is said to have possessed so accurate an eye, that when making drawings from the various antiquities of Rome, as triumphal arches, baths, columns, colossal figures, obelisks, amphitheatres, and aqueducts, he did all by the eye, using neither rule, nor compass, nor instruments of any kind; but afterwards, measuring what he had done, every part was found to be correct, and in all respects as if he had measured them. He drew the Colosseum in this manner by the eye, placing a figure standing upright in the drawing, by measuring which, the proportions of all the building will be found; this was tried by the masters after Domenico’s death, and found to be rigidly correct.
- ↑ With groups of Angels singing. Having greatly suffered, it has been restored by Professor Marini; but little therefore is now to be seen of Ghorlandajo’s work. —Ed. Flor., 1849.
- ↑ Doubtless, in 1495, at the conclusion of peace between Charles VIII., and the Florentines, when the king obtained pardon for the city of Pisa, which had risen against Florence. —See Giucciardini, lib. i. p. 32. Charles had resided in the Palace of the Wardens at Pisa, before proceeding to Florence. Morrona, Pisa Ant. e Mod., 107. The picture is unhappily ruined by exposure to the weather.
- ↑ Not to be confounded with the Jesuits, who form a totally different body.
- ↑ Da Morrona affirms that these two pictures are now in the church of Santa Anna, and the assertion is repeated by Grassi, Descrizione Artistica di Pisa.
- ↑ The fate of this work is not known.
of the Magi, and has been twice engraved, once in the Storia of Rosini, tav. Ixvi., and. again, in the Reale Gallerie degli Uffizj, now in course of publication. There is a second tondo, but smaller, and not so rich in figures, in the Pitti Palace.
