[Stated on an inscription to have been painted in 1221. Relying on the date, the Sienese have disputed the claims of the Florentines to have been the regenerators of Italian art. But it has been proved that the numerals have been tampered with, the true date being 1281.]
Holbein (see under 1314).
The Meier Madonna (102): picture, Palace Princess Charles, Darmstadt.
[This is from the original, of which there is a celebrated copy at Dresden. "The received tradition respecting the Holbein Madonna is beautiful, and I believe the interpretation to be true. A father and a mother have prayed to her for the life of their sick child. She appears to them, her own Christ in her arms. She puts down her Christ beside them—takes their child into her arms instead. It lies down upon her bosom, and stretches its hand to its father and mother, saying farewell."—Ruskin's On the Old Road, i. pp. 234, 235.]
Libri, Girolamo dai (see under 748).
Virgin and Child (44): picture, S. Giorgio, Verona.
Leonardo da Vinci (see under 1093).
Virgin and Child: fresco, St. Onofrio, Rome.
Lippi, Fra Filippo (see under 666).