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intelligence both within and without, and richly adorned. Living in that
city, then, up to the eighty-eighth year of his life, he ended his days
there, and received honourable burial in the aforesaid S. Paulino from
those whom he had honoured when alive.

[Illustration: S. JOHN THE EVANGELIST

(_After_ Baccio da Montelupo. _Florence: Or San Michele_)

_Alinari_]

A contemporary of Baccio was Agostino, a very famous sculptor and carver
of Milan, who began in S. Maria, at Milan, the tomb of Monsignore de
Foix, which remains unfinished even now; and in it may still be seen
many large figures, some finished, some half completed, and others only
blocked out, with a number of scenes in half-relief, in pieces and not
built in, and a great quantity of foliage and trophies. For the Biraghi,
also, he made another tomb, which is finished and erected in S.
Francesco, with six large figures, the base wrought with scenes, and
other very beautiful ornaments, which bear witness to the masterly skill
of that valiant craftsman.

Baccio left at his death, among other sons, Raffaello, who applied
himself to sculpture, and not merely equalled his father, but surpassed
him by a great measure. This Raffaello, beginning in his youth to work
in clay, in wax, and in bronze, acquired the name of an excellent
sculptor, and was therefore taken by Antonio da San Gallo to Loreto,
together with many others, in order to finish the ornamentation of that
Chamber, according to the directions left by Andrea Sansovino; where
Raffaello completely finished the Marriage of Our Lady, begun by the
said Sansovino, executing many things in a beautiful and perfect manner,
partly over the beginnings of Andrea, and partly from his own invention.
Wherefore he was deservedly esteemed to be one of the best craftsmen who
worked there in his time.

He had finished this work, when Michelagnolo, by order of Pope Clement
VII, proceeded to finish the new sacristy and the library of S. Lorenzo
in Florence; and that master, having recognized the talent of Raffaello,
made use of him in that work, and caused him to execute, among other
things, after the model that he himself had made, the S. Damiano of
marble which is now in that sacristy--a very beautiful statue, very
highly extolled by all men. After the death of Clement, Raffaello
attached himself to Duke Alessandro de' Medici, who was then having the
fortress of Prato built; and he made for him in grey-stone, on one