o Lappoli, an Aretine, who was an
able and practised painter, as is shown by the works from his hand which
are in S. Agostino, in the Chapel of S. Sebastiano, where there is that
Saint wrought in relief by the same man, with figures round him, in
painting, of S. Biagio, S. Rocco, S. Anthony of Padua, and S.
Bernardino; while on the arch of the chapel is an Annunciation, and on
the vaulting are the four Evangelists, wrought in fresco with a high
finish. By the hand of the same man, in another chapel on the left hand
as one enters the said church by the side-door, is a Nativity in fresco,
with the Madonna receiving the Annunciation from the Angel, in the
figure of which Angel he portrayed Giuliano Bacci, then a young man of
very beautiful aspect. Over the said door, on the outer side, he made an
Annunciation, with S. Peter on one side and S. Paul on the other,
portraying in the face of the Madonna the mother of Messer Pietro
Aretino, a very famous poet. In S. Francesco, for the Chapel of S.
Bernardino, he painted a panel with that Saint, who appears alive, and
so beautiful that this is the best figure that he ever made. In the
Chapel of the Pietramaleschi in the Vescovado he painted a very
beautiful S. Ignazio on a panel in distemper; and in the Pieve, at the
entrance of the upper door which opens on the piazza, a S. Andrew and a
S. Sebastian. For the Company of the Trinita, by order of Buoninsegna
Buoninsegni of Arezzo, he made a work with beautiful invention, which
can be numbered among the best that he ever executed, and this was a
Crucifix over an altar, with a S. Martin on one side and a S. Rocco on
the other, and two figures kneeling at the foot, one in the form of a
poor man, lean, emaciated, and wretchedly clothed, from whom there
issued certain rays that shone straight on the wounds of the Saviour,
while the Saint gazed on him most intently; and the other in the form of
a rich man, clothed in purple and fine linen, and all ruddy and cheerful
in countenance, whose rays, as he was adoring Christ, although they were
issuing from his heart, like those of the poor man, appeared not to
shine directly on the wounds of the Crucified Christ, but to stray and
spread over certain plains and fields full of grain, green crops,
cattle, gardens, and other suchlike things, while some diverged over the
sea towards certain boats laden with merchandise; and others, finally,
shone on certain money-changers' tables. All these things we