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112 Pisano gave evidence of that excellence in art to which he afterwards attained. Finally, having reached a good old age, he departed to a better life.

Gentile da Fabriano, after having executed many works in Città di Gastello, became at length paralytic, and fell into such a state of weakness, that he could no more produce any thing of value. Ultimately he died from the exhaustion of age, having reached the term of eighty years.

The portrait of Pisano I have not been able to discover in any place whatsoever. Both these artists drew exceedingly well, as may be seen from the drawings preserved in our book.

It rarely happens that the disciples of distinguished artists, if they observe the precepts of those masters, do not themselves become very eminent; or if they do not surpass their instructors, they are at least, for the most part, found to resemble, and even equal them on all points. The earnest zeal of imitation, with assiduity in study, lends us