Virgin and Child (241): picture, S. Domenico, Siena.
[Stated on an inscription to have been painted in 1221. Relying
on the date, the Sienese have disputed the claims of the
Florentines to have been the regenerators of Italian art. But
it has been proved that the numerals have been tampered with,
the true date being 1281.]
HOLBEIN (see under 1314).
The Meier Madonna (102): picture, Palace Princess Charles, Darmstadt.
[This is from the original, of which there is a celebrated copy
at Dresden. "The received tradition respecting the Holbein
Madonna is beautiful, and I believe the interpretation to be
true. A father and a mother have prayed to her for the life
of their sick child. She appears to them, her own Christ in
her arms. She puts down her Christ beside them--takes their
child into her arms instead. It lies down upon her bosom,
and stretches its hand to its father and mother, saying
farewell."--Ruskin's _On the Old Road_, i. pp. 234, 235.]
LIBRI, GIROLAMO DAI (see under 748).
Virgin and Child (44): picture, S. Giorgio, Verona.
LEONARDO DA VINCI (see under 1093).
Virgin and Child: fresco, St. Onofrio, Rome.
LIPPI, FRA FILIPPO (see under 666).
Virgin and Child (34): picture, Uffizi, Florence.
Virgin and Child (100): picture, Belle Arti, Florence.
[This is one of the four pictures selected by Mr. Ruskin for
his series of "Lesson Photographs."--See _Fors Clavigera_,
1875, pp. 307-310; 1876, p. 187.]
Burial of St. Stephen (238): fresco, cathedral of Prato.
Heads from frescoes (157, 170): " " "
LIPPI, FILIPPINO (see under 293).
Virgin and Child (66): fresco, cathedral, Prato.
Vision of S. Bernard (1): altar-piece, Badia, Florence.
Glorification of St. Thomas Aquinas, two heads from: fresco (157);
Cappella, Carafa, S. Maria sopra Minerva, Rome.
[For a description of this remarkable fresco, "barbarously
restored and repainted in 1874," see Kugler's _Italian Schools
of Painting_, i. 160.]
St. Peter delivered from prison: fresco, Brancacci chapel, Carmine,
Florence.
St. Peter and St. Paul before Nero, and Martyrdom of St. Peter: fresco,
Brancacci chapel, Carmine, Florence.
St. Peter visited by St. Paul: fresco, Brancacci chapel, Carmine,
Florence.
[See also Masaccio and Masolino; the Arundel Society's
ascriptions are here followed, but the ascription of these
frescoes to one or other of the three artists, Filippino Lippi,
Masaccio, and Masolino is doubtful.]
LORENZETTI, PIETRO (see under 1113).
The Deposition (29): fresco, lower church, Assisi.
Good Government: frescoes, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.
LORENZO, FIORENZO DI (see under 1103).
Events in the Life of St. Bernardino (30, 229, 230): pictures,
Pinacoteca, Perugia.
LUINI (see under 18).
Ippolita Sforza in prayer, with attendant saints (74): fresco,
S. Maurizio, Milan.
Donor and Saints (266): fresco, S. Maurizio, Milan.
St. Catherine (268): fresco, Santuario della Madonna, Saronno.
St. Apollonia (260): " " "
Head of an Attendant (125): " " "
Head of the Virgin (117): " " "
Marriage of the Virgin: " " "
Adoration of the Magi: " " "
Christ among the Doctors: " " "
Presentation: " " "
Madonna and Child (160): fresco, S. Maria degli Angioli, Lugano.
[In a side chapel to the right of the entrance. "One of the
loveliest little pictures in Italy. It is dated 1530, and
is probably the last work which the golden hand of Luini
bequeathed to the world."--Lund's _Como and Italian Lake-land_,
p. 432.]
MANTEGNA (see under 274).
The Histories of SS. James and Christopher (38, 42, 227, 230, 236,
239); frescoes, Eremitani Chapel, Padua.
[The most important works of Mantegna's youth. "His early
frescoes in the Eremitani look as though they had been painted
from statues or clay models, carefully selected for the
grandeur of their forms, the nobility of their attitudes,
and the complicated beauty of their drapery."--Symonds:
_Renaissance_, iii. 197.]
MASACCIO (Florentine: 1401-1428).
St. Peter and St. John giving alms: fresco, Brancacci Chapel, Carmine,
Florence.
St. Peter and St. John healing the sick: fresco, Brancacci Chapel,
Carmine, Florence.
St. Peter preaching: fresco, Brancacci Chapel, Carmine, Florence.