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Rh San Benedotto, a most beautiful monastry situate without the Pinti Gate, there were many pictures by Andrea dal Castagno, both in the church and convent, but of these I need make no further mention, since they were destroyed in the siege of Florence. In the city itself, and in the monastery belonging to the Monaci degli Angeli, Andrea dal Castagno painted a Crucifix (which is still there), in the first cloister, and opposite to the principal door, with Our Lady, San Giovanni, San Benedetto, and San Romualdo: and at the end of the cloister which is above the kitchen-garden, he painted another, nearly similar, the heads only, with a few other smaller particulars, being slightly varied. In the church of Santa Trinita, near the chapel of Maestro Luca, this artist painted a Sant’ Andrea. For Pandolfo Pandolfini, he depicted certain illustrious persons in one of the halls of his palace at Legnara. And for the Brother-