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272 all his works, was enabled honourably to maintain his con dition of a cavalier to the end of his days.

One of the competitors of Andrea was Lorenzo da Lendinara, who was considered by the people of Padua to be an excellent painter, and executed various works in terra-cotta also, for the church of Sant’ Antonio in that city. There were besides, some others who flourished at the same time but of no great eminence. With Dario da Treviso and Marco Zoppo, of Bologna, Andrea Mantegna constantly maintained the most friendly relations, having been brought up with them under the discipline of Squarcione. For the Friars Minors, this Marco painted a Loggia in Padua, which serves them for a chapter-house; and in Pesaro he painted a picture which is now in the new church of San Giovanni Evangelista, with a portrait of Guido Baldo da Montefeltro, who was at that time captain-general of the Florentines. The Ferrarese painter, Stefano, was also a friend of Mantegna; the works of this artist are few, but all tolerably good. The ornaments of the Sarcophagus of Sant’ Antonio, in Padua, are by his hand; and he likewise painted a Madonna, which is called the Virgin of the Pillar.

But to return to Andrea; this master built and adorned