y
to be the gates of Paradise.

Ghirlandajo: Domenico Bigordi, called Ghirlandajo,
or the garland-maker, celebrated painter, b. in Florence, 1449, d. 1494;
"in treatment, drawing, and modelling, G. excels any fresco-painter
since Masaccio; shares with the two Lippis, father and son,
a fondness for introducing subordinate groups which was unknown
to Massaccio."--Woltmann and Woermann's History of Painting.

24.

Their ghosts still stand, as I said before,
Watching each fresco flaked and rasped,
Blocked up, knocked out, or whitewashed o'er:
--No getting again what the Church has grasped!
The works on the wall must take their chance;
"Works never conceded to England's thick clime!"
(I hope they prefer their inheritance
Of a bucketful of Italian quicklime.)

25.

When they go at length, with such a shaking
Of heads o'er the old delusion, sadly
Each master his way through the black streets taking,
Where many a lost work breathes though badly--
Why don't they bethink them of who has merited?
Why not reveal, while their pictures dree
Such doom, how a captive might be out-ferreted?
Why is it they never remember me?

--
St. 25. dree: endure (A. S. "dreo'gan").

26.

Not that I expect the great Bigordi,
Nor Sandro to hear me, chivalric, bellicose;
Nor the wronged Lippino; and not a word I
Say of a scrap of Fra Angelico's:
But are you too fine, Taddeo Gaddi,
To grant me a taste of your intonaco,
Some Jerome that seeks the heaven with a sad eye?
Not a churlish saint, Lorenzo Monaco?

--
St. 26. Bigordi: Ghirlandajo; see above. {note to St. 23.}
Sandro: Sandro Filipepi, called Botticelli (1437-1515),
"belonged in feeling, to the older Christian school,
tho' his religious sentiment was not quite strong enough
to resist entirely the paganizing influence of the time" (Heaton);
became a disciple of Savonarola.

Lippino: Filippino Lippi, son of Fra Filippo (1460-1505),
"added to his father's bold naturalism a dramatic talent in composition,
which places his works above the mere realisms of Fra Filippo,
and renders him worthy to be placed next to Masaccio
in the line of progress."--Heaton.

Fra Angelico: see under the Monologue of Fra Lippo Lippi.
Taddeo Gaddi: "foremost amongst these (`The Giotteschi')
stands the name of T. G. (1300, liv