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Rh the same over land and sea, nntil it is brought to Lucca. In this picture are many portraits, more particularly that of Paolo Guinigi, which Cosimo took from one executed in terra by Jacopo della Fonte, when he constructed the tomb of Paolo’s wife. There is also a painting by this master in the chapel of the silk-weavers, in the church of San Marco at Florence; in the centre is the Holy Cross, and on either side are San Marco, San Giovanni Evangelista, Sant’ Antonino, Archbishop of Florence, and other figures.

Being afterwards invited, with other masters, by Pope Sixtus lY., to take part in the works which that pontiff caused to be executed in the chapel of his palace, Cosimo Rosselli repaired to Rome, where he laboured in company with Sandro Botticello, Domenico Ghirlandajo, the Abate di San Clemente, Luca da Cortona, and Piero Perugino. The pictures painted by Cosimo were three; one representing the Submersion of Pharaoh in the Red Sea, the second, Christ Preaching to the People on the shores of Lake Tiberias, and the third, the Last Supper of the Saviour with his Apostles. In the last of these pictures he drew an octangular table in perspective, the ceiling above it having also eight compartments, and in the angles of this he gave proof that he possessed as much knowledge of perspective as any of the other masters It is said that Pope Sixtus had