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Title: The art of the Pitti Palace : with a short history of the building of the palace, and its owners, and an appreciation of its treasures
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs, 1866-
Subjects: Palazzo Pitti Painting
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ane thoughts whichdid not cease to assail him, even in the most remotedeserts, as he most fully tells us in his own writings.To express this condition of things intelligibly, Idepicted Venus with Cupid in her arms, and leadinga laughing Love by the hand; she is flying fromthe place made sacred by that devotion, and hassuffered the quivers and arrows of her son to fallto the earth. The arrows which Cupid has shotat the saint turn broken toward himself, while oth-ers, caught as they are falling, are brought back toVenus by her doves. Michelangelo was a kind and wise friend to Va-sari, delicately hinting to him how well it wouldbe to devote himself to architecture; but Vasarinever erred on the side of modesty respecting hisown talents, and simply saw in this advice a formof general encouragement. The idea of writing his Lives of the Painters **was first suggested to Giorgio at a supper at Car-dinal Farneses. Monsignor Giovio, who had justpublished some material on the subject of the arts
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TEMPTATION OF ST. JEROMEBy Vasari; in the Stanza of Justice I Stanja ot xaii^sses 325 in his * Eulogies/* was mentioning to the companythat he contemplated adding a treatise concerningmen who had been famous in these arts, from Cima-bue to his own times. The cardinal and GiorgioVasari began to talk over this proposition, and itwas suggested that Giorgio himself should assistin this undertaking, he being recognized as an his-torical student. Vasari agreed to contribute to thevolume. Accordingly he went home and arrangedhis notes, etc., in order, and presented his materialto Giovio. Giovio was so impressed by what Vasarishowed him that he unhesitatingly turned the workover to him, saying: I would have you undertakethis work yourself, for I see that you know perfectlywell how to proceed therein. Vasari thus beganhis monumental book. When the Lives of theArtists was finished, Duke Cosimo desired theauthor to give it to the ducal printer, LorenzoTorentino. This was done, and the work wentf

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