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| | Walks in Florence: Churches, Streets and Palaces |
 | | The Assumption of the virgin, the last of the series in the cortile, is by Il Rosso Fiorentino (1496-1541), who painted it in 1513, when only seventeen years of age. |
 | | Il Rosso afterwards visited Rome and Venice, and proceeded to France, where he painted for Francis I., and was appointed by that monarch superintendant of the works at Fontainebleau. |
 | | The silver lamps and rich decorations, in pietra-dura, or Florentine mosaic, were made at the expense of the Grand-Duke Cosimo I., and of his son, Ferdinand I. Ferdinand is represented in a relief, on his knees, invoking the aid of the Holy Virgin. |
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