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1525] paint imaginative works, and vies with Michelangelo in designing nudes on a large scale. His Allegory, in the National Gallery, and his Christ in Hades, are tasteless conceptions, devoid alike of spiritual meaning and beauty. But many of his portraits are admirable works of art. Few later masters have surpassed his courtly representations of Eleonora of Toledo, and Lucrezia Panciatichi, of Duke Cosimo and Don Ferdinand, at Florence, or the full length portrait of the handsome boy in red and black, which long went by the name of Pontormo, in the National Gallery.