FILIPPO LIPPI TO BRONZING 



is in sight. On a medal by Pisanello a lynx is repre- 

 sented blindfolded. The Emperor Frederick II. in the 

 Art of Hunting, already mentioned, speaks of lynxes 

 as well as leopards and ferrets as being used in the 

 chase. ^ Probably the tradition of the animals he had 

 brought with him into Italy two hundred years before 

 still lingered. " Salimbene," says Mr. Coulton, "as he 

 played about the streets of Parma, saw the heralds of 

 the mighty host that Frederick was bringing to crush 

 the rebellious cities of Lombardy, * an elephant, with 

 many dromedaries, camels, and leopards, and all the 

 strange beasts and birds that the great Emperor loved 

 to have about him.' " ^ 



A comparison of Gozzoli's birds with those of Giotto 

 shows in what a different spirit they are painted. In 

 his St. Francis Preaching to the Birds (Montefalco), 

 amongst other birds can be seen the blackbird, dove, 

 wood-pigeon, and golden oriole, treated with more desire 

 to be naturalistically correct than to indicate any pious 

 sentiment. In the Vintage of Noah (Pisa, Campo Santo), 

 the sturdy thrush, legs apart listening for worms, is 

 troubled by no spiritual aspirations. The parrot or 

 popinjay, then becoming popular, and as a fashionable 

 pet almost rivalling the falcon, also appears. 



^ Ars Venandi, i. cap. r. 



- From St. Francis to Dante, p. 42. 



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