A horse leaps away with strong,
terrified action, there is a masterly grasp of his vivid subject, and a
rugged strength in the execution which gives great life to it.
3. _S. Philip exorcises a Girl possessed of a Demon_. Here the
composition is very tender, the mother and father support the sick
girl, and form a very pleasing group; the figures of the spectators are
full of life without exaggeration.
These works have suffered much from exposure, but the colouring is
still good. The praise that Andrea obtained for them was so great that
he followed them up by the two in the next series.
4. _A Child brought to life by touching the bier of S. Philip_.
This is a kind of double composition, the child being represented in a
twofold condition in the foreground, first as dead, and then revived at
the touch of the bier. The grouping around the dead saint is very
suggestive of Ghirlandajo, and shews a deep study of his frescoes in
the Sassetti Chapel. The colouring is peculiarly his own; there is the
mingling of a great variety of bright tints of equal intensity, which
by some necromancy are made to relieve each other, instead of being
relieved by the art of chiaroscuro as in the handling of other masters.
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