example, the rocks, trees, and shrubs, the books, and similar things; there is besides the portrait of the above-named Francesco, so truly natural, that it wants nothing but the power of speech to be alive. This picture was removed from its place during the siege, and was deposited for safety in the abbey of Florence.[1] In the church of San Spirito in the same city, Filippino painted a picture for Tanai de’ Nerli,[2] the subject is the Virgin, with San Martino, San Niccolo, and Santa Caterina; he executed another in the church of San Brancazio (Pancrazio), for the chapel of the Rucellai family,[3] with a Crucifix, and two figures on a gold ground for the church of San Raffaello.[4] In the church of San Francesco, situate without the gate of San Miniato, there is a picture by Filippino in front of the Sacristy; it represents the Almighty Father with children around him;[5] and at the Palco, a house of the barefooted monks outside the city of Prato,[6] there is also a picture by this master. In the same place there is a small painting by Filippo, which has been greatly extolled; it is in the audience-chamber of the prior, and represents Our Lady, with San Stefano and San Giovanni Batista.[7] This master likewise painted a Tabernacle in fresco at the corner of the Mercatale (also in Prato), opposite to the convent of Santa Margherita, and near some houses belonging to the nuns. In this work there is an exceedingly beautiful figure of the Virgin, in the midst of a choir of
- ↑ It is now in the church, over the altar of the first chapel to the right of the entrance. — Ed. Flor., 1832.
- ↑ Still in the same chapel. — Ibid.
- ↑ On the suppression of the church, this picture, a Madonna, with the Divine Child, and SS. Jerome and Dominick, was removed to the Rucellai Dalace.—Ibid.
- ↑ This church, properly San Ruffelo, was suppressed, and the fate of the picture is not known; but there is one in the Berlin Gallery, ascribed to Filippino, which has the Crucifix and figures on a gold ground, as here described.
- ↑ The fate of this picture cannot now be ascertained.
- ↑ Masselli informs us that this picture was sold in 1785; and he further says that it was in the Gallery of Munich at the time when he wrote (1838), From the catalogue of that Gallery it would seem to be a figure of the Saviour appearing to the Virgin after his crucifixion. In the predella is the Dead Christ, supported by an Angel with four Saints, SS. Francesco, Domenico, Agostino, and Celestino, namely.
- ↑ A painting by Filippino is still in the Town Hall of Prato, but the figure of San Sebastian is not one of those portrayed in it.
