["There is perhaps no edifice of the kind which gives so complete an idea of the residence of a great Italian nobleman in the middle ages." The frescoes are fully described in Mr. Oscar Browning's Life of Bartolomeo Colleoni, published by the Arundel Society in 1891. "These pictures are extremely interesting as showing the manners and customs of the time; and we cannot but feel that an age which could have crowded into so short a space so many scenes replete with life and colour, with dignity and magnificence, must be worthy of our study. Romanino, the reputed author of the frescoes, was born ten years after the events which they portray. He must, therefore, have worked from the family records of what occurred, although in his own age the life of chivalry was not altogether dead. It is more probable, however, that they were executed by one of his pupils.">[
Rosselli, Cosimo (Florentine: 1439-1507).
Worship of the Golden Calf (135): fresco, Sistine Chapel, Rome.
The Last Supper (184): " " "
Passage of the Red Sea (192): " " "
Sermon on the Mount (198): " " "
[The latter is the most successful. The landscape and perhaps other parts are by his pupil, Piero di Cosimo. To Rosselli was formerly attributed No. 227 in our Gallery.]
Santi, Giovanni (see under 751).
Nativity and Resurrection (4): fresco, St. Domenico, Cagli.
Sarto, Andrea del (see under 690).
The Last Supper (122): fresco, S. Salvi, Florence.
[A celebrated work in a convent, now a lunatic asylum, near Florence: commissioned in 1519, finished in 1527. Described and highly praised by Vasari (iii. 224), who says that the beauty of the fresco saved the convent from destruction during the siege of Florence in 1529-30.]
Charity (94): fresco, cloisters of Campagnia dello Scalzo, Florence.