CHAPTER XII.

COSIMO AND PIERO DE’ MEDICI AND ART.

Revolution in the Direction of Art when Cosimo was young—Architectural Questions—Brunelleschi—Re-building of San Lorenzo—Abbey of Fiesole—Michelozzo—Church and Convent of San Marco—Other Works of Michelozzo—Chapel of the Annunziata—Tabernacle in San Miniato—Tornabuoni Palace—Brunelleschi’s Buildings—Pazzi Chapel—Pitti Palace—Luca Fancelli—Leon Batista Alberti—Rucellai Palace and Loggia—Holy Sepulchre—The Annunziata Choir—Sculpture—Donatello and Cosimo de’ Medici—Lorenzo Ghiberti—Glass Painting and the Jesuates—Luca della Robbia—Works in Glazed Earth—Sepulchral Monuments—Noferi Strozzi—Neri Capponi—Orlando de’ Medici—Splendour of the Monuments—Desiderio da Settignano—Bernardo and Antonio Rossellino—Chapel of the Cardinal of Portugal—Mino da Fiesole—Ornamentation—Giuliano da Majano—Antonio Filarete—Niello—Maso Finiguerra—Painting—Masaccio and Fra Angelico of Fiesole—Benozzo Gozzoli—Paolo Uccello—Andrea dal Castagno—Domenico Veneziano—Filippo Lippi—The Peselli—Flemish in connection with Tuscan Art—Art-Treasures and Antiquities in the House of the Medici—Personal Intercourse of the Medici with Artists—Antonio Squarcialupi _degli Organi_—Domenico Veneziano to Piero de’ Medici—Benozzo Gozzali to Piero de’ Medici—Fra Filippo Lippi and the Medici—Beginnings of Art History—Cennini and Ghiberti 120