Many of the examples in American Collections have been published and discussed by William Rankin and myself in the Burlington Magazine, Vol. VIII, IX. See also a popular sketch by me in Arts and Decoration, Dec. ’05. The furnishing and decoration of a patrician Florentine house in the 15th century is learnedly and delightfully treated by A. Schiaparelli, La Casa fiorentina &c., Florence, 1908.
[34]. See my article in Art in America, Vol. VIII, p. 154, and in Arts and Decoration, Note 6, above.
[35]. Masaccio, bibliography in Note 4 above.
In essentials the view and chronology of Masaccio’s works here given differs from Cavalcaselle’s only in relegating the frescoes in S. Clemente to Masolino and their proper date in the late 30s or early 40s. In this I have been partially anticipated by Pietro Toesca, Masolino da Panicale, Bergamo, 1908.
The reader may justly wish me to commit myself on this most disputed question to the extent of a list. I give it in a tentative chronological order assuming that Masaccio may have begun to work as early as 1420.
Early Works under Masolino’s influence:
Madonna and Saints (fresco). Shrine at Montemarciano near S. Giovanni.
Pietà (fresco). Cathedral, Empoli.
Miracle of healing by Christ (ruined by repainting). John C. Johnson Coll., Philadelphia.
Madonna and St. Ann. Uffizi, Florence.