urch of S.
Miniato al Monte, the vaulting of the marble chapel, which rests on four
columns in the middle of the church, and which they divided most
beautifully into octagons. But the most notable work of this kind that
ever issued from their hands was the vaulting of the Chapel of S.
Jacopo, where the Cardinal of Portugal is buried, in the same church. In
this, although it has no salient angles, they made the four Evangelists
in four medallions at the corners, and the Holy Spirit in a medallion in
the middle of the vaulting, filling the other spaces with scales which
follow the curve of the vaulting and diminish little by little till they
reach the centre, insomuch that there is nothing better of that kind to
be seen, nor anything built and put together with more diligence.

Next, in a little arch over the door of the Church of S. Piero
Buonconsiglio, below the Mercato Vecchio, he made the Madonna with some
angels round her, all very vivacious; and over a door of a little church
near S. Piero Maggiore, in a lunette, he made another Madonna with some
angels, which are held very beautiful. And in the Chapter-house of S.
Croce, likewise, built by the family of the Pazzi under the direction of
Pippo di Ser Brunellesco, he made all the glazed figures that are seen
therein both within and without. And Luca is said to have sent some very
beautiful figures in full-relief to the King of Spain, together with
some works in marble. For Naples, also, he made in Florence the marble
tomb for the infant brother of the Duke of Calabria, with many glazed
ornaments, being assisted by his brother Agostino.

After these works, Luca sought to find a way of painting figures and
scenes on a level surface of terra-cotta, in order to give long life to
pictures, and made an experiment in a medallion which is above the
shrine of the four saints without Orsanmichele, on the level surface of
which, in five parts, he made the instruments and insignia of the Guilds
of the Masters in Wood and Stone, with very beautiful ornaments. And he
made two other medallions in the same place, in relief, in one of which,
for the Guild of Apothecaries, he made a Madonna, and in the other, for
the Mercatanzia, a lily on a bale, which has round it a festoon of
fruits and foliage of various sorts, so well made, that they appear to
be real and not of painted terra-cotta. In the Church of S. Brancazio,
also, he made a tomb of marble for Messer Benozzo Federighi, Bishop