The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance / With An Index To Their Works

by Bernard Berenson

• Bergamo.
  • Morelli, 51. Bust of Man.
• Berlin.
  • 91. Nativity.
• Budapest.
  • 58. Nativity. 1510.
• Chatsworth.
  • Duke of Devonshire. Bust of Man (?). L.
• Colle di Val d’Elsa.
  • S. Agostino, third Altar R. Pietà. 1521.
• Florence.
  • Academy, 83, 87. Panels with three Angels each. E.
  • Pitti, 207. Portrait of a Goldsmith. E.
  • 224. Portrait of a Lady. 1509.
  • Uffizi, 1275, 1277. Miracles of S. Zanobi. 1510.
  • Bigallo. Predelle. 1515.
  • Palazzo Vecchio, Cappella dei Priori. Frescoes. 1514.
  • Corsini Gallery, 129. Portrait of Man.
  • Palazzo Torrigiani. Portrait of Ardinghelli.
  • La Quiete. St. Sebastian.
• Glasgow.
  • Mr. William Beattie. Portrait of Man (?).
• London.
  • 1143. Procession to Calvary. E.
  • Mr. George Salting. Portrait of Girolamo Beniviene.
• Lucardo (near Certaldo).
  • High Altar. Madonna with SS. Peter, Martin, Justus, and the Baptist. E.
• Milan.
  • Comm. Benigno Crespi. Small Triptych. Nativity and Saints.
• New Haven (U. S. A.).
  • Jarves Collection, 97. Madonna and Saints.
• Paris.
  • 1324. Coronation of Virgin. 1503.
• Philadelphia.
  • Elkins Park, Mr. Peter Widener, 191. Bust of Lucrezia Summaria, E.
• Pistoia.
  • S. Pietro Maggiore. Madonna and Saints. 1508.
• Prato.
  • Duomo. Madonna giving Girdle to St. Thomas. 1514.
• Reigate (Surrey).
  • The Priory, Mr. Somers Somerset. Portrait of Girolamo Beniviene.
• St. Petersburg.
  • 40. Portrait of Old Man.
• Wantage.
  • Lockinge House, Lady Wantage. Youngish Man looking up from Letter.

GIOTTO.

1276-1336. Follower of Pietro Cavallini; influenced by Giovanni Pisano.

• Assisi.
  • S. Francesco, Lower Church, Chapel of the Magdalen: Frescoes: Feast in the House of Simon (in great part); Raising of Lazarus; “Noli me Tangere,” (in part); Magdalen and Donor (in part)(?). (The remaining frescoes in this chapel are by assistants.) Before 1328.
    • Upper Church. II-XIX of frescoes recounting the Life of St. Francis (with occasional aid of A). E.
    • West Wall. Fresco: Madonna.
• Boston (U. S. A.).
  • Mrs. J. L. Gardner: Presentation of Christ in the Temple. L.
• Florence.
  • Academy, 103. Madonna enthroned and Angels.
  • S. Croce, Bardi Chapel. Frescoes: Life of St. Francis, etc. (Little more than the compositions are now Giotto’s.) Not earlier than 1317.
    • Peruzzi Chapel. Frescoes: Lives of the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist (considerably repainted). L.
• Munich.
  • 983. Last Supper.
• Padua.
  • Arena Chapel. Frescoes: Lives of Christ and His Mother; Last Judgment; Symbolical Figures. About 1305-6.
    • Sacristy. Painted Crucifix. About 1305-6.
• Rome.
  • S. Giovanni Laterano, Pillar R. Aisle. Fragment of Fresco: Boniface VIII proclaiming the Jubilee. 1300.

GIOTTO’S ASSISTANTS.

[An attempt to distinguish in the mass of work usually ascribed to Giotto the different artistic personalities engaged as his most immediate followers and assistants.]

A.

• Assisi.
  • S. Francesco, Upper Church. XX-XXV and first of Frescoes recounting the Life of St. Francis, done perhaps under Giotto’s directions. XXVI-XXVIII of same series done more upon his own responsibility.
    • Lower Church, Chapel of the Sacrament. Frescoes: Legend of St. Nicholas; Christ with SS. Francis and Nicholas and Donors, etc. (?). Before 1316. Madonna between SS. Francis and Nicholas (?). Before 1316.
• Florence.
  • Uffizi, 20. Altarpiece of St. Cecily. E.
  • S. Margherita a Montici (beyond Torre del Gallo). Madonna. E. Altarpiece with St. Margaret. E.
  • S. Miniato: Altarpiece with S. Miniato. E.

B.

• Assisi.
  • S. Francesco, Lower Church, Over Tomb of Saint. Frescoes: Allegories of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience, and Triumph of St. Francis. (The Francis between the two Angels in the “Obedience” and nearly all of the “Triumph” were executed by another hand, probably C.)
    • R. Transept. Frescoes: Bringing to Life of Child fallen from Window; Francis and a crowned Skeleton; Two Scenes (one on either side of arch leading to the Chapel of the Sacrament) representing the Bringing to Life of a Boy killed by a falling House; (above these) Annunciation; (next to Cimabue’s Madonna) Crucifixion (with the aid of C).
• Florence.
  • S. Croce, Cappella Medici. Baroncelli Polyptych: Coronation of Virgin, Saints and Angels (?).