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A Wanderer in Florence

CHAPTER V
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The head immediately above Giuliano I do not know, but that one a little to the left above it is Gozzoli's own.

Among the throng are men of learning who either came to Florence from the East or Florentines who assimilated their philosophy--such as Georgius Gemisthos, Marsilio Ficino, and perhaps certain painters among them, all proteges of Cosimo and Piero, and all makers of the Renaissance.
The assemblage alone, apart altogether from any beauty and charm that the painting possesses, makes these frescoes valuable.

But the painting is a delight.

We have a pretty Gozzoli in our National Gallery--No.

283--but it gives no indication of the ripeness and richness and incident of this work; while the famous Biblical series in the Campo Santo of Pisa has so largely perished as to be scarcely evidence to his colour.


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