Catalogue of an exhibition of Florentine painting ... - Warburg Institute

30 MINERVA AND THE FLUTE.
Continuous composition in
PICTURES 31
a wooded and rocky landscape with
the sea in the distance. On the extreme left is Minerva, who,
disgusted at beholding in the waters of a brook her own reflection,
with puffed-out cheeks, is
throwing away two flutes on which she
has been playing. Farther on the right are seen two satyrs, who
have picked up the instruments.
Panel; 27 by 61 inches.
Arundel Club Portfolio, 1914, No. 2.
PIERO DI COSIMO (1462-1521).
Lent by Mrs, Henry Oppenheimer.
31 BATTLE OF THE CENTAURS AND LAPITHAE.
Composition of numerous figures in a rocky and wooded landscape,
with various incidents in the struggle between the Centaurs
and the Lapithae shown in the foreground and middle distance.
Panel; 27f by 102 inches.
See Home in the Architectural Review, 1902, pp. 61 sqq.
PIERO DI COSIMO (1462-1521).
Lent by Messrs. C. Ricketts and C. Shannon, A.R.A.
32 THE MARRIAGE FEAST OF NASTAGIO DEGLI ONESTI
WITH THE DAUGHTER OF PAOLO TRAVERSARI.
The feast takes place in the open air under a loggia seen in the
perspective of its length, and enclosing two walls which extend
between three rows of five piers, supporting semicircular arches.
The guests are seated at two long, narrow tables, the women on the
left and the men on the right. Above the capitals of the three
foremost piers of the loggia are three shields, of which the one on
the left is blazoned with the arms of the Pucci; that on the left with
Pucci impaling Bini ;
and the central one shows the Medici arms.
Before the central pier is placed a sideboard covered with richly
wrought plate. The bridegroom
is seated by himself, in a wrought
metal chair, at the women's table opposite the bride, to whom he