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LIVES OF THE ARTISTS.
beautiful, facile, and most pleasing, that may be comprehended
and seen to be good at a glance, by whomsoever possesses the
slightest degree of judgment and comprehension.
All these disciples of Agnolo did him great honour. He was
entombed by his sons, (to whom it is affirmed that he left
50,000 florins, or more) in the sepulchre which he had himself
prepared for his burial and that of his descendants, in Santa
Maria Novella, in the year of our salvation 1387.* The por-
trait of Agnolo, by his own hand, may be seen in the chapel
of the Alberti, in Santa Croce, in a painting near the door,
wherein the emperor Heraclius is depicted bearing the cross:
he is represented in profile, with a short thin beard, and on
his head is a cap of a red colour, of the form proper to the
period. Agnolo Gaddi was not particularly excellent in de-
sign, to judge from the specimen presented in certain drawings
by his hand, which are to be found in our book.
THE SIENESE PAINTER BERNA.+
[BORN . . . .—DIED IN 1381 ?]
If those who labour to attain excellence in art or science
were not too frequently cut off by death in the best of their
days, there is no doubt but that many exalted minds would
have gained the summit towards which their aims tended, and
whither the world, as well as themselves, would have rejoiced
to see them arrive. But the brevity of man’s life, and the
* Or, according to the Florentine commentators, not until after 1390,
at which period they declare Agnolo Gaddi to have been still in exist-
ence. The first edition of Vasari gives the following epitaph on this
master:—
“ Angelo Taddei F. Gaddio ingenii et picturse gloria honoribus prc-
bitatisque existimatione vere magno Filii moestiss. posuere.”
f Ghiberti calls this artist Barna, an abreviation of Barnabd. Baldi-
nucci and Rumohr agree with him; but the later Florentine editors
consider Berna or. Barna to be rather an abbreviation of Bernardo or
Bernardino. The true name of the painter, they incline to think, was
Barna Bertini.
LIVES OF THE ARTISTS.
beautiful, facile, and most pleasing, that may be comprehended
and seen to be good at a glance, by whomsoever possesses the
slightest degree of judgment and comprehension.
All these disciples of Agnolo did him great honour. He was
entombed by his sons, (to whom it is affirmed that he left
50,000 florins, or more) in the sepulchre which he had himself
prepared for his burial and that of his descendants, in Santa
Maria Novella, in the year of our salvation 1387.* The por-
trait of Agnolo, by his own hand, may be seen in the chapel
of the Alberti, in Santa Croce, in a painting near the door,
wherein the emperor Heraclius is depicted bearing the cross:
he is represented in profile, with a short thin beard, and on
his head is a cap of a red colour, of the form proper to the
period. Agnolo Gaddi was not particularly excellent in de-
sign, to judge from the specimen presented in certain drawings
by his hand, which are to be found in our book.
THE SIENESE PAINTER BERNA.+
[BORN . . . .—DIED IN 1381 ?]
If those who labour to attain excellence in art or science
were not too frequently cut off by death in the best of their
days, there is no doubt but that many exalted minds would
have gained the summit towards which their aims tended, and
whither the world, as well as themselves, would have rejoiced
to see them arrive. But the brevity of man’s life, and the
* Or, according to the Florentine commentators, not until after 1390,
at which period they declare Agnolo Gaddi to have been still in exist-
ence. The first edition of Vasari gives the following epitaph on this
master:—
“ Angelo Taddei F. Gaddio ingenii et picturse gloria honoribus prc-
bitatisque existimatione vere magno Filii moestiss. posuere.”
f Ghiberti calls this artist Barna, an abreviation of Barnabd. Baldi-
nucci and Rumohr agree with him; but the later Florentine editors
consider Berna or. Barna to be rather an abbreviation of Bernardo or
Bernardino. The true name of the painter, they incline to think, was
Barna Bertini.