l Last Supper that is at the head of
the refectory of the same monks, which he did at the commission of Don
Andrea Doffi the Abbot, who had been a monk of that monastery, and who
had his own portrait painted in a corner at the foot.

Ridolfo also executed three very beautiful stories of the Madonna, which
have the appearance of miniatures, on a predella in the little Church of
the Misericordia, in the Piazza di S. Giovanni. And for Matteo Cini, in
a little tabernacle on the corner of his house, near the Piazza di S.
Maria Novella, he painted Our Lady, S. Matthew the Apostle, and S.
Dominic, with two little sons of that Matteo on their knees, portrayed
from life; which work, although small, is very beautiful and full of
grace. For the Nuns of S. Girolamo, of the Order of S. Francesco de'
Zoccoli, on the heights of S. Giorgio, he painted two altar-pieces; in
one is S. Jerome in Penitence, very beautiful, with a Nativity of Jesus
Christ in the lunette above, and in the other, which is opposite to the
first, is an Annunciation, and in the lunette above S. Mary Magdalene
partaking of the Communion. In the Palace that is now the Duke's he
painted the chapel where the Signori used to hear Mass, executing in the
centre of the vaulting the most Holy Trinity, and in the other
compartments some little Angels who are holding the Mysteries of the
Passion, with some heads representing the twelve Apostles. In the four
corners he painted the four Evangelists in whole-length figures, and at
the head the Angel Gabriel bringing the Annunciation to the Virgin,
depicting in a kind of landscape the Piazza della Nunziata in Florence
as far as the Church of S. Marco; and all this work is executed
excellently well, with many beautiful ornaments. When it was finished,
he painted in an altar-piece, which was placed in the Pieve of Prato,
Our Lady presenting the Girdle to S. Thomas, who is with the other
Apostles. For Ognissanti, at the commission of Monsignor de' Bonafe,
Director of the Hospital of S. Maria Nuova, and Bishop of Cortona, he
executed an altar-piece with Our Lady, S. John the Baptist, and S.
Romualdo; and for the same patron, having served him well, he painted
some other works, of which there is no need to make mention. He then
copied the three Labours of Hercules (which Antonio del Pollaiuolo had
formerly painted in the Palace of the Medici), for Giovan Battista della
Palla, who sent them to France.

[Illustration: RIDOLFO GHIRLAN