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96 hood of the Evangelist he painted a Banner, to be carried in their processions, which was esteemed to be a very beautiful thing. In the convent belonging to the Servites in the same city, are certain frescoes by this master, painted in three shallow niches of different chapels. One of these chapels, is that dedicated to San Giuliano, where there are stories from the life of the Saint, with a considerable number of figures and a dog, foreshortened, which has been greatly extolled. Above these, in the chapel of San Girolamo (St. Jerome), that saint is delineated, his body wasted, and with the head shaven; the figure well-drawn and very carefully painted. Over it is the Trinity with a Crucifix, which is also foreshortened, and so well done, that Andrea merits great praise for that work, he having executed the foreshortening in a much better and more modern manner than any master among those who preceded him had done. But this fresco can no longer be seen, a picture having been suspended over it by the Montaguti family. In the third chapel (which stands beside the last-mentioned, the place of which is beneath the organ), erected at the command of Messer Orlando de’ Medici, Andrea painted Lazarus, Martha, and Mary Magdalen. For the Nuns of San Giuliano, he executed a Crucifix in fresco, over the door, with figures of Our Lady, San Domenico, San Giuliano, and San Giovanni, a picture which is considered one of the best that Andrea ever painted, and which has been commended by all artists. In Santa Croce, there is a work by this master in the chapel of the Cavalcanti family, a San Giovan Batista, and