ing in 1366), the son of Gaddo Gaddi,
and godson of Giotto; was an architect as well as painter, and was on
the council of Works of S. Maria del Fiore, after Giotto's death,
and carried out his design for the bell-tower."--Heaton.
intonaco: rough-casting.

Lorenzo Monaco: see under the Monologue of Fra Lippo Lippi.

27.

Could not the ghost with the close red cap,
My Pollajolo, the twice a craftsman,
Save me a sample, give me the hap
Of a muscular Christ that shows the draughtsman?
No Virgin by him the somewhat petty,
Of finical touch and tempera crumbly--
Could not Alesso Baldovinetti
Contribute so much, I ask him humbly?

--
St. 27. Pollajolo: "Antonio Pollajuolo (ab. 1430-1498)
was a sculptor and goldsmith, more than a painter; . . .his master-work
in pictorial art is the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, in the Nat. Gal.,
painted for the Pucci Chapel in the Church of San Sebastiano de' Servi,
at Florence. `This painting', says Vasari, `has been more extolled
than any other ever executed by Antonio'. It is, however,
unpleasantly hard and obtrusively anatomical. Pollajuolo is said to
have been the first artist who studied anatomy by means of dissection,
and his sole aim in this picture seems to have been to display
his knowledge of muscular action. He was an engraver as well as
goldsmith, sculptor, and painter."--Heaton.

Tempera: see Webster, s. vv. "tempera" and "distemper". {paint types}
Alesso Baldovinetti: Florentine painter, b. 1422, or later, d. 1499;
worked in mosaic, particularly as a restorer of old mosaics,
besides painting; he made many experiments in both branches of art,
and attempted to work fresco `al secco', and varnish it so as to
make it permanent, but in this he failed. His works were distinguished
for extreme minuteness of detail. "In the church of the Annunziata
in Florence, he executed an historical piece in fresco,
but finished `a secco', wherein he represented the Nativity of Christ,
painted with such minuteness of care, that each separate straw
in the roof of a cabin, figured therein, may be counted,
and every knot in these straws distinguished."--Vasari.
His remaining works are much injured by scaling or the abrasion of
the colors.

28.

Margheritone of Arezzo,
With the grave-clothes garb and swaddling barret
(Why purse up mouth and beak in a pet so,
You bald old saturnine poll-cla