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THE MAKERS OF FLORENCE.
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whom Brother Bartholomew was dear, set to work to per-
suade him, for the good of the chapel and its founder, and
for the honor of San Marco, and for the advantage of his
art, to take brush in hand once more. What arguments
they used we are not told, but they were at length success-
“ Devil” in Mercato Vecchio.
ful, and Fra Bartolommeo took up again, but languidly, his
accustomed tools. The result was the great picture of the
vision of St. Bernard, which Vasari describes with enthu-
siasm. St. Bernardo writing looking up sees a vision “of
our Lady, with her child, borne in the arms of angels,” and
gazes upon this vision with rapt countenance, ‘‘contem-
plating it so that well may be seen in him I know not what
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whom Brother Bartholomew was dear, set to work to per-
suade him, for the good of the chapel and its founder, and
for the honor of San Marco, and for the advantage of his
art, to take brush in hand once more. What arguments
they used we are not told, but they were at length success-
“ Devil” in Mercato Vecchio.
ful, and Fra Bartolommeo took up again, but languidly, his
accustomed tools. The result was the great picture of the
vision of St. Bernard, which Vasari describes with enthu-
siasm. St. Bernardo writing looking up sees a vision “of
our Lady, with her child, borne in the arms of angels,” and
gazes upon this vision with rapt countenance, ‘‘contem-
plating it so that well may be seen in him I know not what