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276 LORENZO DI CREDI [1459-
Caterina. He expressly desires that his funeral
should be as simple as possible, and that his money
may be devoted to the sick and needy. Six years
later, on the 12th of January, 1537, this excellent artist
and faithful follower of Savonarola breathed his last,
and was buried in the church of S. Pietro Maggiore.
Like his master, Lorenzo was an admirable
portrait-painter, and several good specimens of his
skill in this branch of art are still in existence.
The Berlin Gallery contains an interesting profile
of a young girl in a white, square-cut bodice, with
pale red sleeves and a coral necklace, which goes
by the name of Verrocchio, but is really an early
work by Lorenzo di Credi. The words “ Noli me
Tangere,” are written below, and at the back of the
panel, on a shield wreathed in laurel, we read the
following lines from the sonnet long ascribed to
Leonardo, and evidently a favourite in his circle,
but which we now know to have been composed
by the poet Matteo di Meglio:—
“ Fu che Iddio voile, sard che Iddio vorrh,
Timore d’infamia, e solo disio d’onore.
Piansi gid quello ch’io volli, poi ch’io 1’ebbi.” *
The portrait of a painter, which is described in
the Uffizi catalogue as that of Verrocchio, is more
probably that of Perugino, his comrade in that
master’s workshop, while in a fine drawing of an
old man, at Chatsworth, Morelli recognised the
likeness of the sculptor Mino da Fiesole. Three
or four striking heads in red chalk, by Lorenzo’s
* “ What God willed, has been, what He wills must be;
Let us fear infamy and only desire honour.
I wept over what I had once desired when it became mine. '’
Caterina. He expressly desires that his funeral
should be as simple as possible, and that his money
may be devoted to the sick and needy. Six years
later, on the 12th of January, 1537, this excellent artist
and faithful follower of Savonarola breathed his last,
and was buried in the church of S. Pietro Maggiore.
Like his master, Lorenzo was an admirable
portrait-painter, and several good specimens of his
skill in this branch of art are still in existence.
The Berlin Gallery contains an interesting profile
of a young girl in a white, square-cut bodice, with
pale red sleeves and a coral necklace, which goes
by the name of Verrocchio, but is really an early
work by Lorenzo di Credi. The words “ Noli me
Tangere,” are written below, and at the back of the
panel, on a shield wreathed in laurel, we read the
following lines from the sonnet long ascribed to
Leonardo, and evidently a favourite in his circle,
but which we now know to have been composed
by the poet Matteo di Meglio:—
“ Fu che Iddio voile, sard che Iddio vorrh,
Timore d’infamia, e solo disio d’onore.
Piansi gid quello ch’io volli, poi ch’io 1’ebbi.” *
The portrait of a painter, which is described in
the Uffizi catalogue as that of Verrocchio, is more
probably that of Perugino, his comrade in that
master’s workshop, while in a fine drawing of an
old man, at Chatsworth, Morelli recognised the
likeness of the sculptor Mino da Fiesole. Three
or four striking heads in red chalk, by Lorenzo’s
* “ What God willed, has been, what He wills must be;
Let us fear infamy and only desire honour.
I wept over what I had once desired when it became mine. '’