FILIPPO LIPPI TO BRONZING 



himself on the roof of a portico, birds perch on the 

 well-head ; dogs are variously employed ; one has killed 

 a hare. In the middle stands a youth with falcon on 

 wrist. The peacock here looks safe amidst all this 

 hunting down of the weaker, but it appears to have 

 been a game-bird. Folgore da San Giminiano, already 

 quoted, has a sonnet which begins — 



" And every Wednesday, as the swift days move, 

 Pheasant and peacock shooting out of doors 

 You'll have, and multitudes of hares to course."^ 



Gozzoli was fond of painting children and animals 

 together. In the fresco which represents the Building 

 of the Tower of Babel, there is a child holding a bird in 

 his left hand and making a cat (apparently, but the paint 

 is badly damaged at this point) sit up at his knee. The 

 collection of animals in the story of Noah by another 

 hand in the upper series may also be noticed. 



There are some incongruous incidents in the series 

 of the Life of St. Augustine at San Gimignano. The 

 quietness and solemnity of the scene of the Death of 

 St. Monica is distinctly marred by the behaviour of one 

 small child who sets a very vicious-looking dog at 

 another. It appears to have the prospect of a very 

 satisfactory bite. 



* Rossetti, Early Italian Poets. 



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