Chapter 22

After the death of Cosimo, by whom Michelozzo had been loved as much as a dear friend can be loved, his son Piero caused him to build the marble Chapel of the Crucifix in S. Miniato sul Monte; and in the half-circle of the arch at the back of the said chapel Michelozzo carved in low-relief a Falcon with the Diamond (the emblem of Cosimo, father of Piero), which was truly a very beautiful work. After these things, the same Piero de' Medici, intending to build the Chapel of the Nunziata, in the Church of the Servi, entirely of marble, besought Michelozzo, now an old man, to give him his advice in the matter, both because he greatly admired his talents and because he knew how faithful a friend and servant he had been to his father Cosimo. This Michelozzo did, and the charge of constructing it was given to Pagno di Lapo Partigiani, a sculptor of Fiesole, who, as one who wished to include many things in a small space, showed many ideas in this work. This chapel is supported by four marble columns about nine braccia high, made with double flutings in the Corinthian manner, with the bases and capitals variously carved and with double members. On the columns rest the architrave, frieze, and cornice, likewise with double members and carvings and wrought with various things of fancy, and particularly with foliage and the emblems and arms of the Medici. Between these and other cornices made for another range of lights, there is a large inscription, very beautifully carved in marble. Below, between the four columns, forming the ceiling of the chapel, there is a coffer-work canopy of marble all carved, full of enamels fired in a furnace and of various fanciful designs in mosaic wrought with gold colour and precious stones. The surface of the pavement is full of porphyry, serpentine, variegated marbles, and other very rare stones, put together and distributed with beautiful design. The said chapel is enclosed by a grille made of bronze ropes, with candelabra above fixed into an ornament of marble, which makes a very beautiful finish to the bronze and to the candelabra; and the door which closes the chapel in front is likewise of bronze and very well contrived. Piero left orders that the chapel should be lighted all round by thirty silver lamps, and this was done. Now, as these were ruined during the siege, the Lord Duke gave orders many years ago that new ones should be made, and the greater part of them are already finished, while the work still goes on; but in spite of this there has never been a moment when there has not been that full number of lamps burning, according to the instructions of Piero, although, from the time when they were destroyed, they have not been of silver. To these adornments Pagno added a very large lily of copper, issuing from a vase which rests on the corner of the gilt and painted cornice of wood which holds the lamps; but this cornice does not support so great a weight by itself, for the whole is sustained by two branches of the lily, which are of iron painted green, and are fixed with lead into the corner of the marble cornice, holding those that are of copper suspended in the air. This work was truly made with judgment and invention; wherefore it is worthy of being much extolled as something beautiful and bizarre. Beside this chapel, he made another on the side towards the cloister, which serves as a choir for the friars, with windows which take their light from the court and give it both to the said chapel and also (since they stand opposite to two similar windows) to the room containing the little organ, which is by the side of the marble chapel. On the front of this choir there is a large press, in which the silver vessels of the Nunziata are kept; and on all these ornaments and throughout the whole are the arms and emblem of the Medici. Without the Chapel of the Nunziata and opposite to it, the same man made a large chandelier of bronze, five braccia in height, as well as the marble holy-water font at the entrance of the church, and a S. John in the centre, which is a very beautiful work. Above the counter where the friars sell the candles, moreover, he made a half-length Madonna of marble with the Child in her arms, in half-relief, of the size of life and very devout; and a similar work in the Office of the Wardens of Works of S. Maria del Fiore.

Pagno also wrought some figures in S. Miniato al Tedesco in company with his master Donato, while a youth; and he made a tomb of marble in the Church of S. Martino in Lucca, opposite to the Chapel of the Sacrament, for Messer Piero di Nocera, who is portrayed there from nature. Filarete relates in the twenty-fifth book of his work that Francesco Sforza, fourth Duke of Milan, presented a very beautiful palace in Milan to the Magnificent Cosimo de' Medici, and that Cosimo, in order to show the Duke how pleased he was with such a gift, not only adorned it richly with marbles and with carved wood-work, but also enlarged it under the direction of Michelozzo, making it eighty-seven braccia and a half, whereas it had previously been only eighty-four braccia. Besides this, he had many pictures painted there, particularly the stories of the life of the Emperor Trajan in a loggia, wherein, among certain decorations, he caused Francesco Sforza himself to be portrayed, with the Lady Bianca, his consort, Duchess of Milan, and also their children, with many other noblemen and great persons, and likewise the portraits of eight Emperors; and to these portraits Michelozzo added that of Cosimo, made by his own hand. Throughout all the apartments he placed the arms of Cosimo in diverse fashions, with his emblem of the Falcon and Diamond. The said pictures were all by the hand of Vincenzio di Zoppa, a painter of no small repute at that time and in that country.

It is recorded that the money that Cosimo spent in the restoration of this palace was paid by Pigello Portinari, a citizen of Florence, who then directed the bank and the accounts of Cosimo in Milan and lived in the said palace. There are some works in marble and bronze by the hand of Michelozzo in Genoa, and many others in other places, which are all known by the manner; but what we have already said about him must suffice. He died at the age of sixty-eight, and he was buried in his own tomb in S. Marco at Florence. His portrait, by the hand of Fra Giovanni, is in the Sacristy of S. Trinita, in the figure of an old man with a cap on his head, representing Nicodemus, who is taking Christ down from the Cross.

INDEX

INDEX OF NAMES OF THE CRAFTSMEN MENTIONED IN VOLUME II

Agnolo (of Siena), 81, 94, 95

Agnolo Gaddi, 15, 25

Agostino (of Siena), 81, 94, 95

Agostino della Robbia, 123-125

Alberti, Leon Batista, 227

Albertinelli, Mariotto, 190

Alessandro Filipepi (Sandro Botticelli, or Sandro di Botticello), 190

Alesso Baldovinetti, 190

Alonso Spagnuolo, 190

Alvaro di Piero, 64

Ammanati, Bartolommeo, 228

Andrea dal Castagno (called Andrea degli Impiccati), 190

Andrea del Sarto, 190

Andrea della Robbia, 125-127, 175

Andrea di Cione Orcagna, 91

Andrea Mantegna, 138

Andrea Pisano, 50, 81, 83, 91, 93, 120, 145, 147, 154, 160, 200

Andrea Verrocchio, 190, 243, 248

Angeli, Don Lorenzo degli (Don Lorenzo Monaco), _Life_, 55-58. 171

Angelico, Fra (Fra Giovanni da Fiesole), 190, 271

Antignano, Segna d', 26

Antonio da Verzelli, 218

Antonio Filarete, 159, 270

Antonio Fiorentino, 236

Antonio (or Vittore) Pisanello, 187

Antonio Pollaiuolo, 159

Antonio Rossellino, 253

Antonio Viniziano, _Life_, 15-20. 37, 43, 83

Antonio Vite, 45, 58

Apelles, 80, 120, 191

Arca, Niccolò dell' (Niccolò Bolognese), 97

Aretino, Niccolò (Niccolò d'Arezzo, Niccolò di Piero Lamberti), _Life_, 101-104. 145, 146, 159, 200

Aretino, Spinello, _Life_, 29-39. 25, 26, 29-39, 67, 83, 179

Arezzo, Niccolò d' (Niccolò Aretino, Niccolò di Piero Lamberti), _Life_, 101-104. 145, 146, 159, 200

Arnolfo di Lapo (Arnolfo Lapo, Arnolfo Lapi), 80, 202, 203, 262, 264, 265

Asciano, Giovanni da, 5

Baccio Bandinelli, 127, 190

Baccio della Porta (Fra Bartolommeo di San Marco), 190, 249

Baldovinetti, Alesso, 190

Banco, Nanni d'Antonio di, _Life_, 113-115. 253

Bandinelli, Baccio, 127, 190

Bartoli, Domenico, 63, 64

Bartoli, Taddeo, _Life_, 61-64

Bartolo di Maestro Fredi, 61

Bartolommeo Ammanati, 228

Bartolommeo di San Marco, Fra (called Baccio della Porta), 190, 249

Bartoluccio Ghiberti, 144-146, 155, 161, 162

Beccafumi, Domenico, 96

Berna, _Life_, 3-5

Bernardetto di Mona Papera, 248

Bernardo Daddi, 25, 26

Bertoldo, 249, 253, 254

Bicci, Lorenzo di, _Life_, 67-73

Bicci di Lorenzo, 72

Bologna, Galante da, 51

Bolognese, Niccolò (called Niccolò dell'Arca), 97

Bonaccorso Ghiberti, 160

Botticelli, Sandro (Sandro di Botticello, or Alessandro Filipepi), 190

Bronzi, Simone de' (Simone da Colle), 145, 146, 200

Brunelleschi, Filippo (Filippo di Ser Brunellesco), _Life_, 195-236. 84-86, 93, 95, 124, 139, 143-147, 150, 159, 161, 183, 185, 188, 190, 195-236, 240-243, 259, 260

Buffalmacco, Buonamico, 68

Buggiano, Il, 235

Bugiardini, Giuliano, 138

Buonaiuti, Corsino, 26

Buonarroti, Michelagnolo, 159, 162, 187, 190, 191, 221, 255, 261

Buschetto, 80

Calamis, 80

Campagnola, Girolamo, 138

Canachus, 80

Casentino, Jacopo di, _Life_, 23-26. 29, 33, 83

Castagno, Andrea dal (called Andrea degli Impiccati), 190

Castel della Pieve, Pietro da (Pietro Vannucci, or Pietro Perugino), 190

Cenni, Pasquino, 26

Cennini, Cennino di Drea, 109

Cimabue, Giovanni, 25, 82, 161, 202

Cini, Simone, 36

Cinuzzi, Vanni, 26

Colle, Simone da (called Simone de' Bronzi), 145, 146, 200

Consiglio Gherardi, 26

Corsino Buonaiuti, 26

Cosmè, 104

Credi, Lorenzo di, 190

Cremona, Geremia da, 236

Cristofano, 104

Daddi, Bernardo, 25, 26

Dalmasi, Lippo, 51

Dello, _Life_, 107-110. 136

Desiderio da Settignano, 253

Domenico Bartoli, 63, 64

Domenico Beccafumi, 96

Domenico dal Lago di Lugano, 236

Domenico Ghirlandajo, 190

Domenico Pucci, 26

Don Jacopo, 57

Don Lorenzo Monaco (Don Lorenzo degli Angeli), _Life_, 55-58. 171

Don Silvestro, 57

Donato (Donatello), _Life_, 239-255. 72, 86, 93, 95, 101, 109, 113-115, 120, 121, 123, 126, 132, 133, 138-140, 143-147, 151, 161, 183, 185, 188, 197, 199-204, 213, 225, 239-255, 259, 260, 270

Duccio, _Life_, 9-11

Erion, 80

Fabriano, Gentile da, 187

Fancelli, Luca, 227

Fiesole, Fra Giovanni da (called Fra Angelico), 190, 271

Filarete, Antonio, 159, 270

Filipepi, Alessandro (Sandro Botticelli, or Sandro di Botticello), 190

Filippo Brunelleschi (Filippo di Ser Brunellesco), _Life_, 195-236. 84-86, 93, 95, 124, 139, 143-147, 150, 159, 161, 183, 185, 188, 190, 195-236, 240-243, 259, 260

Filippo Lippi, Fra, 187, 190

Filippo Lippi (called Filippino), 189, 190

Fiorentino, Antonio, 236

Fiorentino, Francesco, 58

Fiorentino, Niccolò, 236

Fonte, Jacopo della (Jacopo della Quercia), _Life_, 91-97. 86, 87, 91-97, 145, 146, 151, 200

Forzore di Spinello, 39, 177

Fra Angelico (Fra Giovanni da Fiesole), 190, 271

Fra Bartolommeo di San Marco (called Baccio della Porta), 190, 249

Fra Filippo Lippi, 187, 190

Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (called Fra Angelico), 190, 271

Francesco della Luna, 223, 232

Francesco di Giorgio, 10, 85

Francesco di Valdambrina, 145, 146, 200

Francesco Fiorentino, 58

Francesco Granacci (Il Granaccio), 190

Franciabigio, 190

Fredi, Bartolo di Maestro, 61

Gabriello Saracini, 36

Gaddi, Agnolo, 15, 25

Gaddi, Taddeo, 23, 56, 83, 199, 240

Galante da Bologna, 51

Galasso Galassi, 104

Gentile da Fabriano, 187

Geremia da Cremona, 236

Gherardi, Consiglio, 26

Gherardo, Starnina, _Life_, 43-46. 20, 43-46, 58, 83, 165

Ghiberti, Bartoluccio, 144-146, 155, 161, 162

Ghiberti, Bonaccorso, 160

Ghiberti, Lorenzo (Lorenzo di Cione Ghiberti, or Lorenzo di Bartoluccio Ghiberti), _Life_, 143-162. 4, 9, 86, 95, 143-162, 165, 171, 183, 200, 201, 204, 213-218, 234

Ghiberti, Vittorio, 160, 162

Ghirlandajo, Domenico, 190

Ghirlandajo, Ridolfo, 185, 190

Giorgio, Francesco di, 10, 85

Giorgio Vasari, see Vasari

Giottino (Tommaso or Maso), 83

Giotto, 23, 30, 35, 37, 73, 80-83, 86, 120, 131, 139, 147, 150, 161, 162, 166, 171, 195, 202, 250, 262

Jacopo (Jacopo Avanzi), 104

Jacopo, Don, 57

Jacopo da Pontormo, 190

Jacopo della Quercia (or della Fonte), _Life_, 91-97. 86, 87, 91-97, 145, 146, 151, 200

Jacopo di Casentino, _Life_, 23-26. 29, 33, 83

Jacopo Sansovino, 127

Lamberti, Niccolò di Piero (Niccolò d'Arezzo, Niccolò Aretino), _Life_, 101-104. 145, 146, 159, 200

Lapo, Arnolfo di (Arnolfo Lapo, Arnolfo Lapi), 80, 202, 203, 262, 264, 265

Lapo Gucci, 26

Laurati, Pietro (called Lorenzetti), 18

Leon Batista Alberti, 227

Leonardo da Vinci, 190

Leonardo di Ser Giovanni, 119

Lippi, Filippo (called Filippino), 189, 190

Lippi, Fra Filippo, 187, 190

Lippo, _Life_, 49-51. 83

Lippo Dalmasi, 51

Lorenzetti, Pietro (Pietro Laurati), 18

Lorenzo, Bicci di, 72

Lorenzo, Neri di, 72, 73

Lorenzo di Bicci, _Life_, 67-73

Lorenzo di Credi, 190

Lorenzo Ghiberti (Lorenzo di Cione Ghiberti, or Lorenzo di Bartoluccio Ghiberti), _Life_, 143-162. 4, 9, 86, 95, 143-162, 165, 171, 183, 200, 201, 204, 213-218, 234

Lorenzo Monaco, Don (Don Lorenzo degli Angeli), _Life_, 55-58. 171

Lorenzo Vecchietto, 151

Luca della Robbia, _Life_, 119-128. 175, 213

Luca della Robbia (the younger), 126, 127

Luca di Tomè, 5

Luca Fancelli, 227

Lugano, Domenico dal Lago di, 236

Luna, Francesco della, 223, 232

Mantegna, Andrea, 138

Marco da Montepulciano, 72, 179

Mariotto Albertinelli, 190

Martini, Simone (Memmi or Sanese), 16, 37, 83

Masaccio, _Life_, 183-191. 86, 87, 133, 183-191, 198

Maso (or Tommaso, called Giottino), 83

Masolino da Panicale, _Life_, 165-167. 46, 159, 165-167, 171, 185, 187-189

Matteo (of Lucca), 96, 97

Memmi, Simone (Martini or Sanese), 16, 37, 83

Michelagnolo Buonarroti, 159, 162, 187, 190, 191, 221, 255, 261

Michelozzo Michelozzi, _Life_, 259-271. 241

Milano, Giovanni da, 23

Moccio, 4, 10, 11, 101

Mona Papera, Bernardetto di, 248

Monaco, Don Lorenzo (Don Lorenzo degli Angeli), _Life_, 55-58. 171

Montepulciano, Marco da, 72, 179

Myron, 80

Nanni d'Antonio di Banco, _Life_, 113-115. 253

Neri di Lorenzo, 72, 73

Niccola Pisano, 97

Niccolò Aretino (Niccolò d'Arezzo, Niccolò di Piero Lamberti), _Life_, 101-104. 145, 146, 159, 200

Niccolò Bolognese (called Niccolò dell'Arca), 97

Niccolò Fiorentino, 236

Nicomachus, 80

Nino Pisano, 81, 83

Nunziata, Toto del, 190

Orcagna, Andrea di Cione, 91

Ottaviano della Robbia, 123-125

Padova, Vellano da, 253

Pagno di Lapo Partigiani, 269, 270

Panicale, Masolino da, _Life_, 165-167. 46, 159, 165-167, 171, 185, 187-189

Paolo Schiavo, 166

Paolo Uccello, _Life_, 131-140. 20, 110, 131-140, 159, 183, 184, 253

Parri Spinelli, _Life_, 171-179. 36, 39, 83, 125, 159, 171-179

Partigiani, Pagno di Lapo, 269, 270

Pasquino Cenni, 26

Perino (or Pierino) del Vaga, 190

Perugino, Pietro (Pietro Vannucci, or Pietro da Castel della Pieve), 190

Pheidias, 120

Piero, Alvaro di, 64

Pietro Laurati (called Lorenzetti), 18

Pietro Perugino (Pietro Vannucci, or Pietro da Castel della Pieve), 190

Pisanello (Vittore or Antonio), 187

Pisano, Andrea, 50, 81, 83, 91, 93, 120, 145, 147, 154, 160, 200

Pisano, Niccola, 97

Pisano, Nino, 81, 83

Polycletus, 80, 160

Polygnotus, 80

Pollaiuolo, Antonio, 159

Pontormo, Jacopo da, 190

Porta, Baccio della (Fra Bartolommeo di San Marco), 190, 249

Protogenes, 80

Pucci, Domenico, 26

Quercia, Jacopo della (or della Fonte), _Life_, 91-97. 86, 87, 91-97, 145, 146, 151, 200

Raffaello Sanzio (Raffaello da Urbino), 126, 190

Ridolfo Ghirlandajo, 185, 190

Robbia, Agostino della, 123-125

Robbia, Andrea della, 125-127, 175

Robbia, Giovanni della, 126

Robbia, Girolamo della, 126, 127

Robbia, Luca della, _Life_, 119-128. 175, 213

Robbia, Luca della (the younger), 126, 127

Robbia, Ottaviano della, 123-125

Rossellino, Antonio, 253

Rosso, Il, 190

San Marco, Fra Bartolommeo di (called Baccio della Porta), 190, 249

Sandro Botticelli (Sandro di Botticello, or Alessandro Filipepi), 190

Sanese, Simone (Martini or Memmi), 16, 37, 83

Sanese, Ugolino (Ugolino da Siena,) 62

Sansovino, Jacopo, 127

Sanzio, Raffaello (Raffaello da Urbino), 126, 190

Saracini, Gabriello, 36

Sarto, Andrea del, 190

Schiavo, Paolo, 166

Segna d'Antignano, 26

Ser Giovanni, Leonardo di, 119

Settignano, Desiderio da, 253

Siena, Ugolino da (Ugolino Sanese), 62

Silvestro, Don, 57

Simone, 104

Simone (brother of Donatello), 251

Simone (pupil of Filippo Brunelleschi), 236

Simone Cini, 36

Simone da Colle (called Simone de' Bronzi), 145, 146, 200

Spagnuolo, Alonso, 190

Spinelli, Parri, _Life_, 171-179. 36, 39, 83, 125, 159, 171-179

Spinello, Forzore di, 39, 177

Spinello Aretino, _Life_, 29-39. 25, 26, 29-39, 67, 83, 179

Starnina, Gherardo, _Life_, 43-46. 20, 43-46, 58, 83, 165

Stefano, 83

Taddeo Bartoli, _Life_, 61-64

Taddeo Gaddi, 23, 56, 83, 199, 240

Timanthes, 80

Tomè, Luca di, 5

Tommaso (or Maso, called Giottino), 83

Toto del Nunziata, 190

Uccello, Paolo, _Life_, 131-140. 20, 110, 131-140, 159, 183, 184, 253

Ugolino Sanese (Ugolino da Siena), 62

Urbino, Raffaello da (Raffaello Sanzio), 126, 190

Vaga, Perino (or Pierino) del, 190

Valdambrina, Francesco di, 145, 146, 200

Vanni Cinuzzi, 26

Vannucci, Pietro (Pietro Perugino, or Pietro da Castel della Pieve), 190

Vasari, Giorgio-- as art-collector, 5, 20, 26, 39, 46, 51, 58, 64, 96, 104, 109, 110, 128, 135, 139, 162, 178, 179, 227, 253 as author, 3, 5, 10, 31, 55, 57, 71-73, 77-87, 94-96, 104, 113, 119, 125-127, 136, 138, 139, 147, 160-162, 165, 166, 172, 178, 184, 187, 188, 190, 202, 208, 228, 229, 234, 250, 252-254, 263, 264 as painter, 32, 39 as architect, 173, 233, 264, 265

Vecchietto, Lorenzo, 151

Vellano da Padova, 253

Verrocchio, Andrea, 190, 243, 248

Verzelli, Antonio da, 218

Vincenzio di Zoppa, 271

Vinci, Leonardo da, 190

Viniziano, Antonio, _Life_, 15-20. 37, 43, 83

Vite, Antonio, 45, 58

Vittorio Ghiberti, 160, 162

Vittore (or Antonio) Pisanello, 187

Zeuxis, 80

Zoppa, Vincenzio di, 271

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