[235] In the church of Santa Croce in Florence and in that of St. Francis at Assisi.
[236] Fra is an abbreviation of frate, brother.
[237] See below, pp. [361], [363], [364].
[238] One of the most celebrated among the other Florentine painters of the period was Botticelli. He differs from most of his contemporaries in being at his best in easel pictures. His poetic conceptions, the graceful lines of his draperies, and the pensive charm of his faces have especially inspired a famous school of English painters in our own day—the Preraphaelites.
[239] See below, pp. [364], [365].
[240] Leonardo was an engineer and inventor as well.
[241] Compare his Holy Family with the reproduction of one of Giotto's paintings, in order to realize the great change in art between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.
[242] See his portrait of Erasmus below, p. [382].
[243] For an example of the magnificent bronze work produced in Germany in the early sixteenth century, see the statues of Philip the Good and Charles the Bold, pp. 300, 301, above.