A guide to the paintings in the Florentine galleries: the Uffizi, the Pitti, the Accademia; a critical catalogue, with quotations from Vasari (1907)
Cruttwell, Maud, Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574 · London, J. M. Dent & company; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 252
232 THE ACCADEMIA **62 FRA FILIPPO LIPPI. The Coronation of the Virgin. 1447. t.w. h. 192. b. 276. The masterpiece of the painter. ' 6 He fainted for the ladies of S. Ambrogio a most beautiful -picture for the high altar ; the which made … him very dear to Cosimo de' Medici, who because of it became his great friend" (Vas. ii. 615.) Enthroned on a dais the Almighty crowns the Virgin, on either side a crowd of Saints and Angels, most of whom hold lilies. In the foreground a group of Saints and Children, and in the corner Fra Filippo…
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