of San Felice, which is situated on the piazza of Florence, and belongs to the order of Camaldoli, Neri also painted various pictures,[1] with one for the high altar of San Michele d’Arezzo, belonging to the same Order.[2] At Santa Maria delle Grazie, moreover, without the city of Arezzo, this master painted a Madonna in the church of San Bernardino. Under her mantle she is sheltering the people of Arezzo, and on one side is San Bernardino kneeling, with a wooden cross in his hand, such as he was accustomed to carry when he went through the streets of Arezzo, preaching to the people. On the other side of Our Lady, and near her, are San Niccolo and St. Michael the Archangel. Various stories from the life of San Bernardino are depicted in the predella, with certain miracles performed by the saint, more particularly those worked by him in that place.[3] The same master painted the picture of the High Altar, in the church of San Bomolo, in Florence; and in the church of Santa Trinita[4] he painted the life of San Giovanni Gualberto, in fresco, in the chapel of the Spini, with the picture in distemper which is over the altar.[5] From these paintings, we perceive clearly
- ↑ One, at least, of these pictures is lost; but that in the chapel, to the left of the high altar, representing various saints, with a tabernacle in the centre, for the sacrament, is, without doubt, by Neri.— Ed. Flor. 2846-48.
- ↑ Still in good preservation. It was for some time on the high altar,
then in the sacristy, but in 1846 this picture was removed to the first
altar on the right of the entrance. Beneath it is the following inscription:—
“hoc opus fecit fieri dominus johannes de partina abbas huius
abbatie anno domini mcccclxvi. ”Ed. Flor. 1849. - ↑ It is to be lamented that this picture has suffered such irreparable
injury from the hands of an ignorant and barbarous restorer (ritoccatore).
Beneath it is the following inscription:—
“hoc opus fecit fieri michael angelus papii magistri francisci
de saltarelli (?) de aritio pro remedio animie suie et
suorum. a.d. mcccclvi die viii mensis martii.”Ed. Flor. 1846. - ↑ Lanzi, Hist. vol. i, p. 71, says of this picture, that it could not dishonour the father, and was certainly executed with much more care than was usual with the son. But the church of San Romolo in Piazza having been destroyed, the subsequent fate of the painting is unknown.
- ↑ This work has also been lost, and the fresco paintings have perished. —Ed. Flor. 1849.
