107.
26 See p. 108.
27 The work is now in the first chapel on the right in the nave of the
Basilica of Saint Peter's.
28 Now in the Accademia delle Belle Arti of Florence, where it was
placed for its better preservation in 1831.
29 The Office of Works.
30 Documents, copies of which are to be found in "Gaye," vol. ii. pp.
454-464, go to prove that this sculptor was Agostino di Antonio di
Duccio, who was born in 1418 and died in 1481. He was the author of
the relief illustrating the life of S. Gemignano upon the facade of
the Duomo at Modena, and some of the beautiful and delicate marble
reliefs set in the polychromatic front of the Oratory of S.
Bernardino at Perugia, and the fairy-like low relief (bassissimi
rilievi) panels that decorate the interior of the temple of
Malatesta at Rimini.
31 The Madonna and Child in the church of Notre Dame at Bruges,
identified as this work, is in marble. Vasari also states that the
work for the Moscheroni, Merchants of Bruges, was a bronze, but both
accounts were written fifty years after the event. Albert Duerer saw
this work in the church and mentions it as a marble statue in his
"Netherlands Diary," 1520-21.
32 Now in the Tribuna of the Uffizi, Florence.
33 Michael Angelo received payment for the cartoon probably in Florence
on February the 28th, 1505 ("Gaye," ii., p. 93), and he went to
Carrara in April of that year, so the delay was only two months, a
short enough time to prepare his great design.
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