e'
Medici caused to be built, he painted the doors of the press (in which
the silver is kept) with little figures executed with much diligence.
This father painted so many pictures, now to be found in the houses of
Florentine citizens, "that I sometimes stand marvelling how one single
man could execute so much work to such perfection, even in the space of
many years. The Very Reverend Don Vincenzio Borghini, Director of the
Hospital of the Innocenti, has a very beautiful little Madonna by the
hand of this father; and Bartolommeo Gondi, as devoted a lover of these
arts as any gentleman that one could think of, has a large picture, a
small one, and a Crucifix, all by the same hand. The pictures that
are in the arch over the door of S. Domenico are also by the same
man; and in the Sacristy of S. Trinita there is a panel containing a
Deposition from the Cross, into which he put so great diligence, that it
can be numbered among the best works that he ever made. In S. Francesco,
without the Porta a S. Miniato, there is an Annunciation; and in S.
Maria Novella, besides the works already named, he painted with little
scenes the Paschal candle and some Reliquaries which are placed on the
altar in the most solemn ceremonies.

[Illustration: THE TRANSFIGURATION

(_After the fresco by =Fra Giovanni da Fiesole= [Fra Angelico]. Florence:
S. Marco_)

_Anderson_]

Over a door of the cloister of the Badia in the same city he painted a
S. Benedict, who is making a sign enjoining silence. For the
Linen-manufacturers he painted a panel that is in the Office of their
Guild; and in Cortona he painted a little arch over the door of the
church of his Order, and likewise the panel of the high-altar. At
Orvieto, on a part of the vaulting of the Chapel of the Madonna in the
Duomo, he began certain prophets, which were finished afterwards by Luca
da Cortona. For the Company of the Temple in Florence he painted a Dead
Christ on a panel; and in the Church of the Monks of the Angeli he made
a Paradise and a Hell with little figures, wherein he showed fine
judgment by making the blessed very beautiful and full of jubilation and
celestial gladness, and the damned all ready for the pains of Hell, in
various most woeful attitudes, and bearing the stamp of their sins and
unworthiness on their faces. The blessed are seen entering the gate of
Paradise in celestial dance, and the damned are being dragged by demons
to the eternal pains of Hell. This work