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A Wanderer in Florence

CHAPTER IX
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Among his pupils was Franciabigio, whose lovely Madonna of the Well we are coming to in the Tribuna.
Chief among the other pictures are two by the delightful Alessio Baldovinetti, the master of Domenico Ghirlandaio, Nos.

60 and 56; and a large early altar-piece by the brothers Orcagna, painted in 1367 for S.Maria Nuova, now the principal hospital of Florence and once the home of many beautiful pictures.

This work is rather dingy now, but it is interesting as coming in part from the hand that designed the tabernacle in Or San Michele and the Loggia de' Lanzi.

Another less-known painter represented here is Francesco Granacci (1469-1543), the author of Nos.

1541 and 1280, both rich and warm and pleasing.


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