he Ascension._ (Luca della Robbia.) Enamelled terra cotta
lunette, decorating tympanum of door of sacristy in the cathedral at
Florence. The first work in this material by Luca of which we have the
date, 1446.

13. _Tomb of the Cardinal of Portugal (Detail)._ (Antonio Rossellino.)
Tomb in colored marble in the church of San Miniato, Florence. Ordered
in 1461.

14. _Equestrian statue of Gattamelata._ (Donatello.) In the Piazza del
Santo, Padua. Commission given 1444. Work begun 1446. Statue set up,
1453. Erected at the expense of Gattamelata's son, Gio. Antonio.

15. _Shrine._ (Mino da Fiesole.) A marble tabernacle, decorated in
mezzo-relievo and originally made for the nuns of the convent of the
Murate. Removed in 1815 to S. Croce, Florence. No date is assigned to
it.

IV. TABLE OF BIOGRAPHICAL DATA.

_Jacopo di Pietro d'Angelo_, of La Quercia Gossa, a castello once near
Siena and since destroyed. Born 1371; died 1438. Variously stated
to have been a scholar of Maestro Goro and of Luca di Giovanni.
Milanese believes that these claims are groundless, and that
Jacopo was a pupil of his own father, who was a goldsmith. Best
known for his marble reliefs ornamenting the portal of S.
Petronio, Bologna.

_Nanni di Banco._ Son of Antonio di Banco, who was at work in the
Florence Cathedral in 1406. He is known to have been considerably
older than Donatello, and Marcel Reymond suggests the date 1374
as the probable year of his birth. Died 1421.

_Donatello._ The familiar name applied to Donato di Niccolo di Betti
Bardi. Born in Florence, 1386; died in Florence, 1466. His visit
to Rome in company with Brunelleschi has been called the most
important of the initial steps in the revival of antiquity in art.
The friendship and patronage of Cosmo de' Medici brought the
artist many commissions.

_Luca di Simone di Marco della Robbia._ Born in Florence, 1399 or
1400; died 1482.

_Andrea della Robbia_, nephew of Luca. Born 1435; died 1525.

_Antonio Rossellino._ One of the five sons of Matteo di Domenico
Gambarelli, all being artists. Born in Settignano in 1427; died
about 1499.

_Mino di Giovanni di Mino_, usually called _Mino da Fiesole_. Born in
1431 in Poppi, in the Casentino, a district between the sources of
the Arno and Tiber, north of Arezzo. Died in 1484. He was a friend
of Desiderio da Settignano, but probably not one of his pu