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52 deration of its beauty and excellence, carried it to be copied by the French Prior, as we shall relate in the proper place. Lazzaro Vasari also laboured in the church of the Servites at Perugia, where he executed certain stories from the life of the Virgin, and also a Crucifix, in a chapel near the sacristy. In the deanery of Montepulciano, he painted the predella of an altar in small figures; and at Castiglione, near Arezzo, is a picture in distemper by his hand; this is in the church of San Francesco. Many other works he also executed which I will not take space to enumerate, more particularly coffers, or caskets, which he decorated with small figures: many of these are now to be seen in the dwellings of different citizens. In the Guelphic Council of Florence, among the old arms collected there, are to be found various caparisons for horses extremely well painted by Lazzaro Vasari. For the brotherhood of San Sebastian, he painted their patron-saint on a gonfalon, or banner. St. Sebastian is represented bound to the column, and surrounded by angels, who place on his head the crown of martyrdom; but this work is much injured and corroded by time.

At the period when Lazzaro Vasari flourished, many glass windows were painted an Arezzo by Fabiano Sassoli, a youth of great excellence in that branch of art, as we find proved in certain works of his which are in the Episcopal Church, the Abbey, the Deanery, and other buildings of that city; but Fabiano not being well acquainted with design, his works were far from attaining to the perfection of those