Lucy Baxter

Lucy Emily Baxter (21 Janairu 1837 - 10 Nuwamba 1902) marubuciya ce 'yar Ingila a fannin fasaha, musamman a ƙarƙashin sunan Leader Scott .

An haife ta a Dorchester, 'yar William Barnes ta uku, mawaƙin Dorsetshire, daga matarsa Julia Miles. Ta fara rubutu tana da shekaru goma sha takwas, kuma daga ƙaramin ribar labarai da labaran mujallu ta adana isassun kuɗi don ziyartar Italiya, babban buri. A can ta haɗu kuma a 1867 ta auri Samuel Thomas Baxter (1810-1903), wani ɗan iyali da ya daɗe yana zama a Florence, wanda daga nan ya zama gidanta. Tsawon shekaru talatin da biyar ta kasance sananne a rayuwar adabi da fasaha na birnin, kuma a 1882 aka zaɓe ta a matsayin memba na girmamawa na Accademia delle Belle Arti . Tsawon shekaru goma sha uku gidanta yana Villa Bianca, a wajen Florence, a gefen Vincigliata (kusa da Fiesole ) da Settignano . Daga cikin waɗanda aka haɗa ta da su a binciken adabi akwai John Temple Leader, wani attajiri ɗan Ingila mazaunin Florence, wanda ya mallaki gidan sarautar Vincigliata . Sunan da ta rubuta a rubuce mai suna 'Leader Scott' ya haɗa sunayen kakanninta guda biyu, Isabel Leader ita ce mahaifiyar mahaifiyarta, yayin da Grace Scott ita ce mahaifiyar mahaifinta.

Babban littafinta shine The Cathedral Builders (1899 da 1900), wani muhimmin bincike na dukkan fannin gine-ginen Romanesque dangane da masu ginin Comacine . Marubuciyar tarihin rayuwarta ta DNB ta lura cewa:

Ko da yake dole ne ya dogara ne akan littafin Merzario I Maestri Comacini, littafin ya nuna abubuwan lura da bincike na asali, kuma idan hujjojinsa ba koyaushe suke da cikakkiyar ma'ana ba, iyakokin aikin na duniya da wadatar zane-zanensa sun sanya shi tarin bayanai da gabatarwa mai amfani ga filin hasashe da ba a saba gani ba. Manufar aikin ita ce a danganta dukkan tsarin gine-ginen zamanin da ga ƙungiyoyin masonic da aka samo, kamar yadda ake tsammani, daga Roman Collegia .

Baya ga wannan aiki da kuma labaran mujallu da dama, ta wallafa:

 A Nook in the Apennines, 1879.
 Fra Bartolommeo, Albertinelli, da Andrea del Sarto, 1881 (don jerin Illustrated Biography of the Great Artists ).
 Ghiberti da Donatello, 1882
 Luca della Robbia, 1883
 Gidan Messer Agnolo, 1883.
 Farfado da Fasaha a Italiya, 1883
 Gungu na 'Ya'yan Itace, Bungay, 1885
 Zane, Renaissance da kuma na zamani, 1886
 Rayuwar William Barnes, 1887
 Nazarin Tuscan da Zane-zane, 1887
 Vincigliata da Maiano, Florence da London, 1891
 The Orti Oricellari, Florence, 1893
 Echoes na Tsohon Florence, Florence da London, 1894
 Gidan Vincigliata, Florence, 1897
 Rushewar Helen, 1898
 Filippo di Ser Brunellesco, 1901
 Correggio, 1902.

Ta fassara daga Italiyanci:

 Sir John Hawkwood na John Temple Leader da G. Marcotti (1889).

Baxter ya mutu a Villa Bianca kusa da Florence a ranar 10 ga Nuwamba, 1902.

 Manazarta 
Paul Waterhouse, 'Baxter, Lucy', in Dictionary of National Biography: Second supplement (London: Oxford University Press, 1901), vol. I, p. 113.