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Title: A new history of painting in Italy, from the second to the sixteenth century
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Crowe, J. A. (Joseph Archer), 1825-1896 Cavalcaselle, G. B. (Giovanni Battista), 1820-1897
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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thren in various degrees of af-fliction, in a composition of a grand and decorous order.He was, indeed, more than usually successful in the 1 Siennese Cat. 12. 2 82 to 87 of Ramboux Catalo-gue. 82 ; — S.S. Nemesius and Johnthe Baptist with predella, con-taining the decapitation of theformer, and Herods feast, andIsaiah in the gable point. 83; —S.S. Benedict and Lucilla with apredella on which are the death ofS. Benedict, and the decapitationof S. Lucilla. 84; — S. Philip hold-ing a book. 85. S. James withstaff and book. 86. An apostlewith a book. 87. A saint in monk-ish dress. 3 Vas. Vol. II. p. 194. 4 Fragment of pediment is num-bered 245 in the cat. of 1860, thatof the pinnacle 246. The subjectof the predella is the death andtransit, that of the pinnacle thecoronation of the Virgin. 5 Vas. Vol. II. p. 190. By thewill of Nerozzo, dated 1377, wehave the exact period when thesefrescos were commissioned of Spi-nello. Vide Cenni Storici di S.Miniato, ub. sup. p. 156 and fol-lowing.
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Chap. I. SPINELLO OF AREZZO. 13 drawing, proportion, and detail of this fresco. His dra-peries are broad and easy, and in spite of the injuriesof time, the whole still preserves much of his transparentwell relieved and powerful colour, as well as the marksof his peculiar dexterity of hand. Some of the frescosof the series are not faultless in distribution. They be-tray casual neglect and carelessness. Yet in general theyshow so much life and energy, and are so fairly sustainedby general laws of composition, vigour of character, andbold facility of handling, that the total impression is grand.To Spinellos assistant Niccolo di Pietro Gerini the com-paratively feeble evangelists in the ceiling may be assigned,as they are not unlike the works of that master and hisson Lorenzo which shall be presently noticed. Spinellos increasing fame now attracted the notice of theindefatigable Parasone Grasso of Pisa, who after exhaust-ing the illustrations of the Pisan hero S. Raineri, nowbethought him

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