Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Robert Browning

From Toronto, poems by Robert Browning, among them "Andrea del Sarto" and "Fra Lippo Lippi."

A map of Florence in 1493. Modern Florence, a tourist view.

Find paintings at ArtStor (Harvard login required); for Fra Lippo Lippi (Fillippino or Fillippo Lippi), search only for "Lippi."

Giotto's Presentation of the Virgin (1305); Giotto's Deposition; Fra Angelico's Annunciation (1430?).

Fra Lippi's Madonna and Child (1445; in Florence, where Robert Browning would likely have seen it). Lippi's Disputation, in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence.

Lippi's Coronation (described in the poem).

The Victorian Web collective annotates "Fra Lippo Lippi."

Paintings by Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) via ArtStor (Harvard login required).

The central figure from Andrea's Madonna of the Harpies (1517). The Madonna of the Harpies seen entire.

Andrea's Holy Family. An Annunciation (1528). Andrea's Madonna della Scala now in the Prado.

All of Vasari's Lives, trans. Gaston DeVere. Vasari's Life of Andrea del Sarto and his Life of Lippi and Botticelli(translator uncredited, but it's DeVere).

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