Pieter Quast (Dutch: 1606-1647).
Quast was a painter and engraver of The Hague; his pictures are in the style of Brouwer and Isaac van Ostade.
2862. ST. JOHN GUALBERTO.
Lorenzo Monaco (Florentine: 1370-1425). See 1897.
This picture represents St. John Gualberto, the Florentine (died 1073), establishing the Order of the Vallombrosans, whose proper habit is of a pale ash colour. He was Abbot of San Miniato, from which he retired to Vallombrosa, establishing there the Order called after the place of its original home.
2863. VIRGIN AND CHILD, WITH ANGELS.
School of Benozzo Gozzoli (Florentine: 1420-1497). See 283.
FOOTNOTES:
[38] It is worth noting that a similar incident (which in this picture has greatly shocked some of the critics) is introduced in Orcagna's great fresco of the Triumph of Death. "The three kings of the German legend are represented looking at the three coffins containing three bodies of kings, such as themselves, in the last stage of corruption.... Orcagna disdains both poetry and taste; he wants the facts only; he wishes to give the spectator the same lesson that the kings had, and, therefore, instead of concealing the dead bodies, he paints them with the most fearful detail. And then, he does not consider what the three kings might most gracefully do. He considers only what they actually, in all probability, would have done. He makes them looking at the coffins with a startled stare, and one holding his nose" (Lectures on Architecture and Painting, pp. 209, 210).