In technical execution the Doni Madonna is faithful to old Florentine usage, but lifeless and unsympathetic.
Nevertheless, with all its aridity, rigidity, and almost repulsive hardness of colour, the Doni Madonna ranks among the great pictures of the world.
Anton Francesco Doni in 1547, and that its genuineness may be disputed.
An Italian impugner of the 'Chronicle,' Giusto Grion of Verona, declared for Antonfrancesco Doni as the fabricator.
Here is a man who can make of a Massimilla Doni a being apart from the rest of creation, possessing her in heaven, amid ideal splendor such as no power on earth can make real.
But Massimilla Doni had acquired in her convent a real taste for a religious life, and, when she had pledged her troth to Duke Cataneo, she was Christianly content to be his wife.
Yet they form an integral part of the history of Italian civilization; and the language of invective used in them, originating with Aretino and improved upon by Doni and Franco, became the model of vituperative style in Europe.
In 1556 he declared war, with a book entitled "Terremoto del Doni Fiorentino.
Footnote 119: How Doni hated his orders may be gathered from these extracts: "La bestial cosa che sia sopportare quattro corna in capo senza belare unquanco.
His capricious nature and bizarre passions made Doni a bad friend; but he was an incomparably amusing companion.
His friend Domenichi had already settled at Venice, when Doni joined him there in 1544.
Doni replied by a pamphlet with this singular title: "Terremoto del Doni fiorentino, con la rovina d'un gran Colosso bestiale Antichristo della nostra eta.
That Doni had accumulated some capital by his incessant scribbling, is proved by the fact that he laid out the grounds about his fortress with considerable luxury.
The whole of the passage translated above is an abstract of a letter professedly written to Aretino by Doni (Lett.
The two Sansovini, Nardi, Titian, Dolce, and other eminent men belonged to the society; but Doni appears to have been its moving spirit on all occasions of convivial intercourse.
Doni as scene-painter at a representation of comedy in Florence, v.
Doni turned his back on Florence; and after wandering from town to town in Northern Italy, settled at last in 1542 at Piacenza, where he seems for a short while to have applied himself with an unwilling mind to law-studies.
While amusing himself with poetry and music among his boon companions, Doni was on the lookout for a place at Court or in the household of a wealthy nobleman.
Doni was a man who might have lent himself to such imposture on the public.
The most Serene Grand Duke my master has been pleased to appoint me to the Chair and Lectureship of Humanity in the Florentine Academy, vacant by the death of the very learned Signor Giovanni Doni of Florence.
Of theDoni mentioned in the letter, as Dati's predecessor in the chair of Belles Lettres at Florence, we had a glimpse Vol.
Doni offered the original seventy; but Michael Angelo replied that if he was bent on bargaining, he should not pay less than one hundred and forty.
Vasari says that Michael Angelo asked seventy ducats for the work, but that Doni only offered forty when the picture was delivered.
He also made some pictures for Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici; and for Agnolo Doni he painted a picture of Our Lady, which stands on the altar of a chapel in his house--a work of extraordinary beauty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doni" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
