oked upon with favour in that city. The
disciples whom he left behind him were Zanobi Macchiavelli, a
Florentine, and others of whom there is no need to make further
record.

FOOTNOTES:

[15] In the heading to the Life Vasari calls him simply Benozzo.

FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO AND LORENZO VECCHIETTO

[Illustration: FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO: S. DOROTHY

(_London: National Gallery_, 1682. _Panel_)]

LIVES OF FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO

SCULPTOR AND ARCHITECT OF SIENA

AND LORENZO VECCHIETTO

SCULPTOR AND PAINTER OF SIENA

Francesco di Giorgio of Siena, who was an excellent sculptor and
architect, made the two bronze angels that are on the high-altar of the
Duomo in that city. These were truly very beautiful pieces of casting,
and he finished them afterwards by himself with the greatest diligence
that it is possible to imagine. This he could do very conveniently, for
he was endowed with good means as well as with a rare intelligence;
wherefore he would work when he felt inclined, not through greed of
gain, but for his own pleasure and in order to leave some honourable
memorial behind him. He also gave attention to painting and executed
some pictures, but these did not equal his sculptures. He had very good
judgment in architecture, and proved that he had a very good knowledge
of that profession; and to this ample testimony is borne by the palace
that he built for Duke Federigo Feltro at Urbino, which is commodiously
arranged and beautifully planned, while the bizarre staircases are well
conceived and more pleasing than any others that had been made up to his
time. The halls are large and magnificent, and the apartments are
conveniently distributed and handsome beyond belief. In a word, the
whole of that palace is as beautiful and as well built as any other that
has been erected down to our own day.

Francesco was a very able engineer, particularly in connection with
military engines, as he showed in a frieze that he painted with his own
hand in the said palace at Urbino, which is all full of rare things of
that kind for the purposes of war. He also filled some books with
designs of such instruments; and the Lord Duke Cosimo de' Medici has the
best of these among his greatest treasures. The same man was so zealous
a student of the warlike machines and instruments of the ancients, and
spent so much time in investigating the plans of the ancient
amphitheatres and other things of that kind, that he was thereby
p