[A Wanderer in Florence by E. V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Florence CHAPTER IX 9/33
His work is rarely met with in Florence, but he has a large fresco at S.Marco.Lorenzo di Credi (1459-1537) himself has two pretty circular paintings here, of which No.
1528 is particularly sweet: "The Virgin and Child with St.John and Angels," all comfortable and happy in a Tuscan meadow; while on an easel is another circular picture, by Pacchiarotto (1477-1535).
This has good colour and twilight beauty, but it does not touch one and is not too felicitously composed.
Over the door to the Venetian room is a Cosimo Rosselli with a prettily affectionate Madonna and Child. From this miscellaneous Tuscan room we pass to the two rooms which contain the Venetian pictures, of which I shall say less than might perhaps be expected, not because I do not intensely admire them but because I feel that the chief space in a Florentine book should be given to Florentine or Tuscan things.
As a matter of fact, I find myself when in the Uffizi continually drawn to revisit these walls.
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