Tafi

Courtesy of Tafi BrownAnd there are many ways to hold a brace.

BUILDING THE TIMBER FRAME HOUSE Tedd Benson 1980

Courtesy of Tafi BrownAnd there are many ways to hold a brace.

BUILDING THE TIMBER FRAME HOUSE Tedd Benson 1980

Courtesy of Tafi BrownAnd there are many ways to hold a brace.

BUILDING THE TIMBER FRAME HOUSE Tedd Benson 1980

Courtesy of Tafi BrownAnd there are many ways to hold a brace.

BUILDING THE TIMBER FRAME HOUSE Tedd Benson 1980

Tafi, Gaddi, and Jacobus were considered as a promising firm, and they undertook other large works in mosaic.

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

The roof and the soffit of the arch over the altar are covered with mosaics representing the Judgment Day, by Tafi, Torrita, and G.  Gaddie, 13th cent.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

It is amusing to read Vasari's patronizing account of Tafi; from the late Renaissance point of view, the mosaic worker seemed to be a barbarous Goth at best: "The good fortune of Andrea was really great," says Vasari, "to be born in an age which, doing all things in the rudest manner, could value so highly the works of an artist who really merited so little, not to say nothing!"

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

One of them, Apollonius, became attached to Tafi, and this is how he came to accompany him to Florence.

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

This done, he got home again half an hour or so before the time Tafi generally woke.

The Well of Saint Clare Anatole France 1884

The task occupied him all day, and when old Tafi came back from San Giovanni, he could not refrain from bestowing a few words of commendation on his pupil.

The Well of Saint Clare Anatole France 1884