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O DA URBINO Maddalena Doni Florence: Pitti, 59 212 RAFFAELLO DA URBINO "The School of Athens" Rome: The Vatican 216 RAFFAELLO DA URBINO The "Disputa del Sacramento" Rome: The Vatican 222 RAFFAELLO DA URBINO The Mass of Bolsena Rome: The Vatican 224 RAFFAELLO DA URBINO Pope Leo X with Two Cardinals Florence: Pitti, 40 230 RAFFAELLO DA URBINO The Transfiguration Rome: The Vatican 240 SIMONE (IL CRONACA) Detail of Cornice Florence: Palazzo Strozzi 266 NICCOLO GROSSO Iron Link-holder Florence: Palazzo Strozzi 268 NICCOLO GROSSO Iron Lantern Florence: Palazzo Strozzi 268 SIMONE (IL CRONACA) Interior of Sacristy Florence: S. Spirito 270 DOMENICO PULIGO (?) Madonna and Child, with Saints Florence: S. Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi 280 FILIPPO LIPPI [Illustration: FILIPPO LIPPI (FILIPPINO): THE VISION OF S. BERNARD (_Florence: Church of the Badia. Panel_)] LIFE OF FILIPPO LIPPI, CALLED FILIPPINO PAINTER OF FLORENCE There was at this same time in Florence a painter of most beautiful intelligence and most lovely invention, namely, Filippo, son of Fra Filippo of the Carmine, who, following in the steps of his dead father in the art of painting, was brought up and instructed, being still very young, by Sandro Botticelli, notwithstanding that his father had commended him on his death-bed to Fra Diamante, who was much his friend--nay, almost his brother. Such was the intelligence of Filippo, and so abundant his invention in painting, and so bizarre and new were his ornaments, that he was the first who showed to the moderns the new method of giving variety to vestments, and embellished and adorned his figures with the girt-up garments of antiquity. He was also the first to bring to light grotesques, in imitation of the antique, and he executed them on
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