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Rh Niccolo di Piero drew well, as may be seen in our book, where there is the figure of an Evangelist by his hand, with three heads of horses, admirably drawn.

Although the Florentine Dello was called a painter only while he lived, and has been so considered since his death, he was, nevertheless, attached to the art of sculpture also,— nay, his first works were in this branch of art, seeing that he worked in terra-cotta long before he began to paint: the Coronation of Our Lady, which is represented in terra-cotta over the door of the church of Santa Maria Nuova, being from his hand. The Twelve Apostles, within the church, are also by him, as is the group in the church of the Servites, which represents the dead body of Christ, laid in the lap of the Virgin. But Dello, beside that he was somewhat capricious, perceived that he gained but little by working in