pils of Andrea were numerous, and, among others, Tommaso,
architect and sculptor, of Pisa, who finished the chapel of the Campo
Santo, and brought the campanile of the Duomo to completion--that is
to say, the last part, where the bells are. This Tommaso was Andrea's
son, if we may believe an inscription on the high altar of S.
Francesco at Pisa, on which a Madonna and other saints are carved by
him in half relief, with his name and that of his father beneath.
Andrea left a son Nino, who devoted himself to sculpture, his first
work being in S. Maria Novella at Florence, where he finished a
marble Madonna, begun by his father, which is inside the door, near
the chapel of the Minerbetti. Going afterwards to Pisa, he made for
the Spina a half-length marble Madonna suckling the infant Jesus
Christ, clothed in delicate draperies. In the year 1522 a marble
ornament for this Madonna was made for M. Jacopo Corbini, who had a
much larger and finer one made for another full-length marble Madonna
of Nino, representing with great grace the mother offering a rose to
the child, who takes it in childish fashion, and so prettily, that
one may say that Nino had made some steps to subduing the roughness
of the stone, and endowing it with the attributes of living flesh.
The figure is between a St John and a St Peter in marble, the head of
the latter being a portrait of Andrea. Nino also made two marble
statues for an altar of S. Caterina at Pisa--that is to say, the
Madonna and an angel in an Annunciation, executed, like his other
works, with such care that they may be considered as the best
productions of those times. On the base beneath this Madonna Nino
carved the following words: "On the first day of February 1370;" and
beneath the angel: "Nino, son of Andrea Pisano, made these figures."

He produced yet other works in that city and at Naples which it is
not necessary to mention here. Andrea died at the age of
seventy-five, in the year 1345, and was buried by Nino in S. Maria
del Fiore with the following epitaph:

"Ingenti Andreas jacet hie Pisanus in urna,
Marmore qui potuit spirantes ducere vultus
Et simulacra Deum mediis imponere templis
Ex acre, ex auro, candenti et pulcro elephanto."

Buonamico Buffalmacco, Painter of Florence.

Buonamico di Cristofano, called Buffalmacco, painter of Florence,
who was a pupil of Andrea Tafi, celebrated for his jests by M.
Giovanni Boccaccio in his