The Palace and Park by Phillips, Forbes, Latham, Owen, Scharf, and Shenton

IL BEATO. _Painter._ [Born at Vicchio, in Tuscany, 1387. Died at Rome, 1455. Aged 67.] This charming painter of the early Florentine school became, when a youth, a friar of the Dominican order. Began by illuminating missals; afterwards enlarged his style, and executed frescos. The finest of these are in the church of San. Marco, and in the chapel of Nicholas V. at Rome. His works are distinguished by simple grace, tenderness of colour, and the most profound religious feeling. He excelled particularly in painting angels. [This Bust is by Leandro Biglioschi; but there is a life-size bust of him upon his tomb, in Minerva di Roma.]