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Rh were decorated by the master with the arms of Cosimo, arranged in various modes and accompanied by his device of the Falcon and Diamond. The paintings here described were all by the hand of, a painter who was held in no small esteem at that time and in that countrynota It appears that the money expended by Cosimo in the restorations of this palace was paid by Pigello Portinari,nota a Florentine citizen, who then directed the financial and other affairs of Cosimo in Milan and resided in the palace. There are certain works in marble and bronze by Michelozzo in Genoa,nota with many others in other places which are known by their manner. But what we have now said of him must suffice; he died in the 68thnota year of his age, and was buried in his own tomb in the church of San Marco, in Florence. His portrait, by the hand of Fra Giovanni, is in the sacristy of Santa Trinita, in the figure of an old man with a cap on his head, representing Nicodemus,nota who is taking the Saviour from the cross.