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200 to illuminating and painting in miniature to the elder Boccardino, by whom the greater part of the books in the Abbey of Florence were illuminated. Gherardo departed this life at the age of seventy-three, and his works date about the year of our redemption 1470.

Domenico, son of Tommaso del Ghirlandajo, who, by the pre-eminence of his talents and the importance and number of his works, is entitled to be placed among the first and most excellent masters of his time, was formed by nature to