"...On
another wall he did Heaven, with the Christ and the Virgin, St. John
the Baptist, the Apostles, Evangelists, martyrs in the clouds, with
God the Father above sending out the Holy Spirit over a number of
saints who subscribe to the Mass and argue upon the Host which is
on the altar. Among them are the four Doctors of the Church, surrounded
by saints, including Dominic, Francis, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventura,
Scotus, Nicholas of Lyra, Dante, Frà Girolamo Savonarola of Ferrara,
and all the Christian theologians, including and number of portraits.
In the air are four children holding open the Gospels, and it would
be impossible for any painter to produce figures of more grace and
perfection than these. The saints in a group in the air seem alive,
and are remarkable for the foreshortening and relief. Their draperies
also are varied and very beautiful, and the heads rather celestial
than human, especially that of Christ, displaying all the clemency
and pity which divine painting can demonstrate to mortal man."
Giorgio
Vasari, The Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters, and
Sculptors,2nd edition, Forence, 1568
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