Florence: Bargello 174

FRANCESCO SALVIATI (FRANCESCO DE' ROSSI)
The Deposition
Florence: S. Croce, the Refectory 180

FRANCESCO DAL PRATO
Medal of Pope Clement VII.
London: British Museum 190

GIUSEPPE DEL SALVIATI (GIUSEPPE PORTA)
The Reconciliation of Pope Alexander III and
Frederick Barbarossa
Rome: The Vatican, Sala Regia 192

DANIELLO RICCIARELLI
The Descent from the Cross
Rome: SS. Trinita dei Monti 200

DANIELLO RICCIARELLI
The Massacre of the Innocents
Florence: Uffizi, 1107 208

FEDERIGO ZUCCHERO
Portrait of the Artist
Florence: Uffizi, 270 226

BASTIANO DA SAN GALLO, CALLED ARISTOTILE

LIFE OF BASTIANO DA SAN GALLO, CALLED ARISTOTILE,

PAINTER AND SCULPTOR OF FLORENCE

When Pietro Perugino, by that time an old man, was painting the
altar-piece of the high-altar of the Servites at Florence, a nephew of
Giuliano and Antonio da San Gallo, called Bastiano, was placed with him
to learn the art of painting. But the boy had not been long with
Perugino, when he saw the manner of Michelagnolo in the cartoon for the
Hall, of which we have already spoken so many times, in the house of the
Medici, and was so struck with admiration, that he would not return any
more to Pietro's workshop, considering that his manner, beside that of
Buonarroti, was dry, petty, and by no means worthy to be imitated. And
since, among those who used to go to paint that cartoon, which was for a
time the school of all who wished to attend to painting, the most able
of all was held to be Ridolfo Ghirlandajo, Bastiano chose him as his
companion, in order to learn colouring from him, and so they became fast
friends. But not ceasing therefore to give his attention to that cartoon
and to work at those nudes, Bastiano copied all together in a little
cartoon the whole composition of that mass of figures, which not one of
all those who had worked at it had ever drawn as a whole. And since he
applied himself to it with all the earnestness that was in him, it
proved that he was afterwards able on any occasion to render an account
of the attitudes, musc