he shop unsatisfied. But when household
cares fell upon him he was troubled, and he therefore laid the charge of
all expenditure on his brother David, saying to him, "Leave me to work,
and do thou provide, for now that I have begun to understand the methods
of this art, it grieves me that they will not commission me to paint
the whole circuit of the walls of the city of Florence with stories";
thus revealing a spirit absolutely invincible and resolute in every
action.

For S. Martino in Lucca he painted S. Peter and S. Paul on a panel. In
the Abbey of Settimo, without Florence, he painted the wall of the
principal chapel in fresco, with two panels in distemper in the
tramezzo[25] of the church. In Florence, also, he executed many
pictures, round, square, and of other kinds, which can only be seen in
the houses of individual citizens. In Pisa he painted the recess behind
the high-altar of the Duomo, and he worked in many parts of that city,
painting, for example, on the front wall of the Office of Works, a scene
of King Charles, portrayed from life, making supplication for Pisa; and
two panels in distemper, that of the high-altar and another, for the
Frati Gesuati in S. Girolamo. In that place there is also a picture of
S. Rocco and S. Sebastian by the hand of the same man, which was given
by one or other of the Medici to those fathers, who have therefore added
to it the arms of Pope Leo X.

He is said to have been so accurate in draughtsmanship, that, when
making drawings of the antiquities of Rome, such as arches, baths,
columns, colossea, obelisks, amphitheatres, and aqueducts, he would work
with the eye alone, without rule, compasses, or measurements; and after
he had made them, on being measured, they were found absolutely correct,
as if he had used measurements. He drew the Colosseum by the eye,
placing at the foot of it a figure standing upright, from the
proportions of which the whole edifice could be measured; this was tried
by some masters after his death, and found quite correct.

Over a door of the cemetery of S. Maria Nuova he painted a S. Michael in
fresco, clad in armour which reflects the light most beautifully--a
thing seldom done before his day. At the Abbey of Passignano, a seat of
the Monks of Vallombrosa, he wrought certain works in company with his
brother David and Bastiano da San Gimignano. Here the two others,
finding themselves poorly fed by the monks before the arrival of
Domenico, complaine