and from his house, which was in the Via Yecchia de’ Corazzai, he was honourably borne to the tomb.[1]
There lived many excellent masters, both in sculpture and architecture, at the same time with Orgagna; their names are not known, but their works still remain, and are not without merit, nor unworthy of praise. Among these may be noted the monastery of the Certosa, in Florence, built at the cost of the noble family of the Acciaiuoli, and more particularly of Messer Niccola, grand seneschal of the king of Naples; with the tomb of the seneschal (on which may be seen his portrait, taken from nature), and that of his father and one of his sisters, the covering of which is of marble, whereon the portraits of the two personages interred beneath are also very well executed. These works are of the year 1366, or thereabout. By the same masters is likewise the sepulchre of Messer Lorenzo, son of the aforesaid Niccola, who died at Naples, but was brought to Florence and deposited in this tomb, with all the honourable solemnities of funereal pomp. In like manner, and by the same artists, is the sepulchre of Cardinal Santa Croce, a member of the same family; this was placed in the choir, which was then rebuilt, and near the high altar. The cardinal’s portrait, extremely well executed, in the year 1390, is sculptured on the tomb.
The Pisan artist, Bernardo Nello di Giovanni Falconi,[2] was a pupil of Andrea Orgagna: he painted many pictures in the cathedral of Pisa. The Florentine, Tommaso di Marco, was also Andrea’s disciple: this master, besides many other works, painted a picture in 1392, which is still in the church of Sant’ Antonio di Pisa, appended to the cross aisle.[3]
- ↑ In the first edition of Vasari, the following epitaph is quoted, as
having been written on Orgagna.
“ hic jacet andreas quo non priestantior alter
aere fvit; patriae maxima fama suae. ” - ↑ The only authenticated relic of this master, is a portion of one of the historical scenes in the Campo Santo of Pisa, an engraving from which may be seen in Lasinio. See Rosini, Storia della Scultura, vol. ii, p. 7.
- ↑ This painting is no longer in existence. It was destroyed when that part of the church wherein it hung was altered.
1329; from a document published by Professor Bonaini, in his Memorie Inedite, pp. 105-6, we find that Orgagna was dead in 1376, not 1375, as Manni has it in his note to Baldinucci.
