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Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3

CHAPTER III
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68.
[99] Among the very best works of the later Robbian school may be cited the frieze upon the facade of the Ospedale del Ceppo at Pistoja, representing in varied colour, and with graceful vivacity, the Seven Acts of Mercy.

Date about 1525.
[100] He calls himself Agostinus Florentine Lapicida on his facade of the Oratory of S.Bernardino.
[101] See especially a roundel in the Bargello, and the altar-piece in the church of Monte Oliveto at Naples.

Those who wish to understand Rossellino should study him in the latter place.
[102] In the church of Samminiato, near Florence.
[103] _Vite di Uomini Illustri_, pp.

152-157.
[104] These tombs in the Badia were erected for Count Ugo, Governor of Tuscany under Otho II., and for Messer Bernardo Giugni.


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