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Rh after his death, before the impious crime he had committed against Domenico, who had been so truly his friend, became known, and he was buried, not with honourable obsequies, but with marks of disgrace, in Santa Maria Nuova, where, in his fifty-sixth year, the unfortunate Domenico had also been buried. The work which the last-mentioned master had commenced in Santa Maria Nuova remained incomplete, nor was it ever finished. The picture of the High Altar of Santa Lucia de’ Bardi is also by Domenico Yeneziano, and in this he has represented Our Lady with the Child in her arms, San Giovanni Batista, San Niccolo, San Francesco, and Santa Lucia, an admirably executed picture, and one which the master had brought to the utmost perfection but a short time before his death.

The disciples of Andrea dal Castagno were Jacopo del Corso, who was a tolerably good master; Pisanello, Marchino, Piero del Pollaiuolo, and Giovanni da Rovezzano.

great advantage is possessed by the man who, after the death of some distinguished person, advanced to