To do the master the greater honour, the two inscriptions following were added by others.
“Filippo Brunellesco antiques architectures instauratori s. P. Q. F. civi suo benemerenti.[1]
The second was written by Gio. Battista Strozzi, and is as follows:
“Tal sopra sasso sasso
Di giro in giro eternamente io strussi;
Che cosi, passo passo
Alto girando, al ciel mi ricondussi.”[2]
Other disciples of Filippo Brunellesco were Domenico del Lago of Lugano, Geremia da Cremona,[3] who worked extremely well in bronze, with a Sclavonian,[4] who performed various works in Venice: Simone, who, after having executed the Madonna[5] in Or San Michele for the Guild of the Apothecaries, died at Vicovaro, while occupied with an important work for the Count di Tagliacozzo.[6] Antonio and Niccolo, both Florentines, who executed a horse in bronze at
- ↑ In the year 1830, the statues of the two architects who commenced and completed the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore—Arnolfo and Brunellesco, namely—were placed in the new Chapter-house of that church. They were executed by the talented Florentine sculptor Luigi Pampaloni (since dead), and are accounted among the best works of modern Italian art. —Schorn.
- ↑
As stone on stone I raised, as course on course
For evermore I piled; so tend my steps,
Face following pace, to my blest home in heaven. - ↑ We learn from Panni, Distinto Rapporto delle Pitture di Cremona, etc., that a fine work of this Geremia, a tomb of Carrara marble, with ornaments well executed in basso-rilievo, and bearing the date 1432, may be seen in the church of San Lorenzo.
- ↑ The later Florentine commentators ask, “Who was this Sclavonian architect?” and conjecture that the “Maestro Luciano Martini of Lauranna”, a little city of Illyria, whom Federigo D’Urbino invited in 1468 to construct his palace, as the most learned architect to be found, may be the Sclavonian alluded to. Of this Maestro Luciano important notices are given by Gaye, i, 214-18.
- ↑ This Madonna first occupied the niche afterwards appropriated to, and still retained by, the St. George of Donatello. The Madonna is now within the oratory.— Schorn.
- ↑ The sculptures of Vicovaro are still in good preservation. They adorn the fa9ade of the church of the Madonna, now called the Old Church (Chiesa Vecchia). —Masselli..
in March 1446, and extending to 1449, we find that Brunellesco’s epitaph was composed by Carlo Marsuppini, Chancellor of the Republic, and not by his father Gregory Marsuppini, as asserted by Richa.
