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LIVES OF THE ARTISTS.
the same city ; furthermore, in that church of Sant’ Agostino,
Moccio erected the sepulchre of Fra Zenone Vigilanti, the
bishop and general of the order of St. Augustine ; lastly,
he built the loggia for the merchants of Ancona, which has
since undergone many changes, now from one cause and now
from another, and has received various improvements, with
modern ornaments of different kinds. All the works of this
artist, although considered much beneath mediocrity in our
day, were at that time, and according to the knowledge of
those men, held in no small estimation. But returning to
Duccio, we close our account of his life with the observation,
that the works of this painter were executed about the year
of our salvation 1350.*
THE PAINTER ANTONIO VINIZIANO.+
[Flourished in the second half of the fourteenth century."]
Many men, who would gladly remain in the country of their
birth, being wounded by the tooth of envy, or oppressed by
the persecutions of their fellow-citizens, wander forth to
some land, where their talents being acknowledged and ap-
preciated, they there make their home, thus choosing a new
country, wherein they then bring forth the fruits of their
genius. Nay, they sometimes labour all the more earnestly
for distinction, to the end that they may thus in a certain
sort take vengeance on those by whom they have been out-
raged, and not unfrequently become great men by these
means, when, had they remained quietly in their native land,
they might perchance have attained little beyond mediocrity
in the vocation of their choice. Antonio the Venetian, who
repaired to Florence^ for the purpose of studying the art of
* Late commentators consider the death of Duccio to have taken
place in or about 1339.
f Antonio the Venetian.
J Baldinucci affirms this painter to have been a Florentine, support-
ing his opinion by documents found in the Strozzi Library. Fiorillo
and Lanzi agree with Baldinucci to a certain extent, but the latter does
not consider the question to be satisfactorily decided.
LIVES OF THE ARTISTS.
the same city ; furthermore, in that church of Sant’ Agostino,
Moccio erected the sepulchre of Fra Zenone Vigilanti, the
bishop and general of the order of St. Augustine ; lastly,
he built the loggia for the merchants of Ancona, which has
since undergone many changes, now from one cause and now
from another, and has received various improvements, with
modern ornaments of different kinds. All the works of this
artist, although considered much beneath mediocrity in our
day, were at that time, and according to the knowledge of
those men, held in no small estimation. But returning to
Duccio, we close our account of his life with the observation,
that the works of this painter were executed about the year
of our salvation 1350.*
THE PAINTER ANTONIO VINIZIANO.+
[Flourished in the second half of the fourteenth century."]
Many men, who would gladly remain in the country of their
birth, being wounded by the tooth of envy, or oppressed by
the persecutions of their fellow-citizens, wander forth to
some land, where their talents being acknowledged and ap-
preciated, they there make their home, thus choosing a new
country, wherein they then bring forth the fruits of their
genius. Nay, they sometimes labour all the more earnestly
for distinction, to the end that they may thus in a certain
sort take vengeance on those by whom they have been out-
raged, and not unfrequently become great men by these
means, when, had they remained quietly in their native land,
they might perchance have attained little beyond mediocrity
in the vocation of their choice. Antonio the Venetian, who
repaired to Florence^ for the purpose of studying the art of
* Late commentators consider the death of Duccio to have taken
place in or about 1339.
f Antonio the Venetian.
J Baldinucci affirms this painter to have been a Florentine, support-
ing his opinion by documents found in the Strozzi Library. Fiorillo
and Lanzi agree with Baldinucci to a certain extent, but the latter does
not consider the question to be satisfactorily decided.