Mon 29. [29 January 1894] In the morning saw the Perugino which
hangs up at home and which is loveliest of his I have yet seen; then[?]
the Benozzo Gozzolis in the Palazzo Ricardi - a dream of loveliness.
One of the Kings - for it is an adoration - is a portrait of the
Paleologues of his day - a perfectly splendid person; and the
clustered angels! they are only like Browning's line "ye birds of God."
Then I saw the loveliest thing in all the world, Michael Angelo's Dawn
and beyond the figure and the face of that woman it is not possible to
go. There is an exquisite Virgin of his there - as if to strike the contrast
between heavenly peace and human unrest. In the afternoon to the
Pitti. I wish I liked Andrea del Sarto more - there is a very interesting
picture however of him and his wife - she looks a cruel stupid beautiful
woman. Fra Bartolommeo too I wd like to understand better. A lovely
standing up Rafael Virgin dei Granduca; an exquisite Perugino,
Lorenzo Lotto's 3 ages of Man, a Botticelli and a Lippo Lippi - these
stand out from a hurried visit. Tea at Giacosa's.