This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...his funds at this time, that he was unable to pay eight lire to the courier who brought him this letter, and was obliged in his answer to ask the Signory to advance that small sum on the money which would be eventually due to him. After his return to Siena, at the end of the year, he addressed a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...his funds at this time, that he was unable to pay eight lire to the courier who brought him this letter, and was obliged in his answer to ask the Signory to advance that small sum on the money which would be eventually due to him. After his return to Siena, at the end of the year, he addressed a 'supjilica' to the Aj. U28. Corporation, in which he prayed for a remission of the fine, on the ground that he had been prevented by his engagements at Bologna from returning sooner, and that, when he finally made an attempt to do so, he had been forcibly detained by the 'operai' of San Petronius. It was not till 1430 that he completed one of the bas-reliefs representing the calling of St. Joachim, in which is an excellent group formed by the attentive saint, the earnest angel, and several persons who stand near them; but as he never found time to make the second relief, it was eventually assigned to Donatello. Five years before this, he had again been called to Bologna to A.d. 1425. sculpture fifteen bas-reliefs for the great doorway of the Basilica of St. Petronius,2 whose subjects, taken from the Book of Genesis, Bas-reliefs relate to the period between the creation of Adam and the Deluge, tronius'. Those representing the creation of Eve (see Plate XII.) and 1 April 16, 1416. These bronze reliefs were to be gilded at the artist's expense, and he was to receive 180 florins for each. 2 He was called to Bologna in 1425 by Archbishop Arli, who offered him 3,600 golden florins to furnish the designs for these reliefs and superintend their execution. the expulsion from Paradise, are almost identical in treatment with the frescoes of the same subject painted by Raphael in the Vatican loggia, and by Michael Angelo in the ceiling of the.d. U94 Sistine...
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