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 *drea the Faultless). His drawing is excellent, his modelling is always good, and his colouring has a freshness and a luminous transparency not found in any other painter of the Florentine school. His Madonnas are exquisite, some of them rivalling in loveliness even those of Raphael; but their beauty is only a superficial beauty—they want depth of soul; and this is why Andrea occupies a lower place in the history of art than that to which his great powers would seem at first to entitle him. Among his best easel pictures are: Four Saints and Two charming Angels holding a Scroll, Florence Academy; Annunciation (2), Dispute about the Trinity (1517), Madonna with Saints, Holy Family (2), History of Joseph, Madonna in Glory and Saints (1525), Assumption (2), Deposition, John Baptist, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Madonna delle Arpie (1517), St. James and Children, Portrait probably of himself, Uffizi, Florence; Charity, Holy Family (2), Louvre; Holy Family and Saints, St. Barbara, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Madonna and Saints, Berlin Museum; Marriage of St. Catherine, Madonna with Cherubs, Sacrifice of Abraham, Dresden Gallery; Tobias and Angel, Pietà, Vienna Museum; Sacrifice of Abraham, Holy Family, Madonna (3), Assumption, Female Portrait, Madrid Museum; Holy Family, Portrait of del Sarto, National Gallery, London.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 542; Vasari, ed. Mil., 5, 63; ed. Le Mon., viii. 250; Dohme, 11iii.; Ch. Blanc, École florentine; Seguier, 213; Burckhardt, 82, 629, 633, 659; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 183; Gaz. des B. Arts (1876), xiv. 465, et seq.

SARTO, ANDREA DEL, portrait, Andrea del Sarto, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 2 ft. 4 in. × 1 ft. 10 in.; signed. Life-size, seated, with book in his hand. Another in Uffizi, Florence.—Cat. Nat. Gal.

SARZANA, IL, born in Sarzana in 1589, died in Genoa in 1669. Genoese school; real name Domenico Fiasella; was taught design by his father, a goldsmith of Sarzana; spent ten years in Rome studying Raphael and other great masters, and became so eminent that he won the praises of Guido, and was chosen to assist the Cavaliere d'Arpino and Passignano in their works. On his return to Genoa he painted many pictures for churches, and conducted a flourishing school.—Lanzi, iii. 257; Ch. Blanc, École génoise; Burckhardt, 768.

Saskia van Ulenburgh, Rembrandt, Cassel Gallery.

SASKIA VAN ULENBURGH, portrait, Rembrandt, Berlin Museum; wood, H. 2 ft. 4 in. × 1 ft. 11 in.; signed, dated 1643. Rembrandt's first wife, to whom he was married, June 10, 1634. Bust, looking forward; wearing a fur hat with a string of pearls around it, and a silk dress.—Bode, Studien, 456, 563; Meyer, Museen, 364.