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DOI Artikel:Skubiszewska, Maria: Franciabigio's two tondi with Annunciation
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7. Franciabigio, Angel, Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Altarpiece, Santo Spirito, Florence
(after McKillop)
8. Franciabigio, Angel, Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Altarpiece, Santo Spirito, Florence
(after McKillop)
tutto tondo ; e il Francia due Agnoletti, che in mezo lo mettono, dipinse a olio in duo quadri, che
furono lodati ; et indue tondi fece una Nunziata ; e lavoro la predella di figure piccole di miracoli
di San Niccola, con tanta diligenza, che merita per ciô moite lodi"17. In another place Vasari wrote
that Nanni Unghero made the statue of the saint after the model of Jacopo Sansovino18.
At the end of the seventeenth century the chapel of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino was thoroughly
restored. During the renovation the altarpiece was dismantled. Its wooden architecture and the
17. Vasari-Milanesi, Vite, V, 1906 (reedited 1973), p. 191; emphasis by the author of the article.
18. Vasari-Milanesi, Vite, VII, 1906 (reedited 1973), p. 488.
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(after McKillop)
8. Franciabigio, Angel, Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Altarpiece, Santo Spirito, Florence
(after McKillop)
tutto tondo ; e il Francia due Agnoletti, che in mezo lo mettono, dipinse a olio in duo quadri, che
furono lodati ; et indue tondi fece una Nunziata ; e lavoro la predella di figure piccole di miracoli
di San Niccola, con tanta diligenza, che merita per ciô moite lodi"17. In another place Vasari wrote
that Nanni Unghero made the statue of the saint after the model of Jacopo Sansovino18.
At the end of the seventeenth century the chapel of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino was thoroughly
restored. During the renovation the altarpiece was dismantled. Its wooden architecture and the
17. Vasari-Milanesi, Vite, V, 1906 (reedited 1973), p. 191; emphasis by the author of the article.
18. Vasari-Milanesi, Vite, VII, 1906 (reedited 1973), p. 488.
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