Edited by Sophie Geoffroy

No.3: Winter 2007/8

ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Cassone, attributed to Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso.
2. ‘A Florentine Lily’ (1890), by Marie Spartali Stillman (1843-1927), the dedicatee of Vernon Lee’s ‘A Wedding Chest.
3. ‘The Enchanted Garden of Messr Ansaldo,’ (1889) Marie Spartali Stillman. I assert that it is this particular painting Lee has in mind for the Boccaccian setting in ‘A Wedding Chest.’ Lee comments on this painting in her collection of essays Limbo.
4. ‘Ecce Ancilla Domini’ (1850), Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
5. The ‘Annunciation’ (1333), Simone Martini. Described in Lee’s essay ‘The Imaginative Art of the Renaissance'.
6. An example of a fiorino d’oro. On the obverse bears the lily, symbol of Florence. The reverse has St. John the Baptist, nimbate and with crosier
 


Cassone, 1461–65 Marco del Buono Giamberti (Italian, Florentine, 1402–1489); Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso (Italian, Florentine, 1414/17–1465), Italian (Florence).

Painted and gilded gesso on poplar, set with a wooden panel painted in tempera and gold; 39 1/2 x 77 x 32 7/8 in. (100.3 x 195.6 x 83.5 cm)

John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913 (14.39)
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‘A Florentine Lily’ (1890),
Marie Spartali Stillman (1843-1927)

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‘The Enchanted Garden of Messr Ansaldo’ (1889)
Marie Spartali Stillman

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« Ecce Ancilla Domini », Dante Gabriel Rossetti,

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‘The Annunciation’ (1333), Simone Martini

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The Fiorin d’Oro, or Florentine lily