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Title: Florence in poetry, history and art
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ryan, Sara Agnes
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Publisher: Chicago, Mayer and Miller Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ith his Saint a-praising God, 145 Florence. That sets us praising,—why not stop with him ?Why put all thoughts of praise out of our headWith wonder at lines, colors and what not!Paint the soul, never mind the legs and arms!Eub it all out, try at it a second time.Oh that white smallish female with the breasts,Shes just my niece—Herodius, I would say,Who went and danced and got mens heads cut off-Have it all out! —Robert Browning. Lippo Lippis Madonna with Child and An-gels, in the Uffizi is described by Richard Wat-son Gilder in his poem: A MADONNA OF FRA LIPPO LIPPI. No heavenly maid we here behold,Though round her brow a ring of gold;This baby, solemn-eyed and sweet,Is human all from head to feet. Together close her palms are prestIn worship of that godly guest;But glad her heart and unafraid,While on her neck His hand is laid. Two children, happy, laughing, gay, Uphold the little child in play; Not flying angels these, what though Four wings from their four shoulders grow. 146
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Modonna with Child and Angels Fra Filippo Lippi Fba Lippo Lippi. Fra Lippo, we have learned from theeA lesson of humanity;To every mothers heart forlorn,In every house the Christ is born. Fra Lippos adopted son—for the sensationalstories of the Frates life, as told by Vasari,have recently been refuted, according to LadyEastlakes Eevision of Kuglers Handbook ofPainting—was Filippino Lippi. He was a pupil of Fra Lippo, and perhaps afamily relative, but if not so, the assuming bya pupil of a masters name was a common cus-tom of the time. He was engaged by the wealthy Strozzi fam-ily to decorate their family chapel in SantaMaria Novello Church, and the Badia and St.Martino s Church are visited chiefly to view hismasterpieces, particularly the Madonna ap-pearing to St. Bernard. The Adoration of the Magi and the Visionof St. Francis in the Uffizi are considered hisbest easel pictures. He has some celebratedfrescoes in the Brancacci Chapel of the sameCarmelite Church—the Carmine—of w

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