Note 14 — Chapter I · GIOTTO AND THE NEW FLORENTINE HUMANISM

By Vasari the Spanish Chapel was divided between Taddeo Gaddi and Simone Martini. C. &. C. discovered that the work was by an Andrea da Firenze who as a document attests painted stories of S. Ranieri at Pisa, in 1377. The contract which proves this Andrea to have been Andrea Bonaiuti, active 1343–77, was published in Arte e Storia, Florence, Feb., 1917, p. 33. It gives the date of the contract for the Spanish Chapel, 1365.

The very elaborate decoration of the Spanish Chapel is fully described in C. &. C. (Hutton) Vol. I., pp. 309–312. There are useful literary illustrations in Venturi, Storia dell’ arte italiana, Vol. V., pp. 792–809. Ruskin in Mornings in Florence gives a partial analysis which is fascinating from a literary point of view, but badly overestimates the merit of the work.