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180 he executed for the Brothers of the Passion, but this picture was never entirely finished, being left incomplete by the death of the master. Guadenzio painted exceedingly well in oil likewise, and there are many works by his hand at Vercelli and Veralla, all of which are very highly esteemed.

At length then we have come, after having written the lives of many artists who have been distinguished, some for colouring, some for design, and some for invention; we have come, I say, to that of the truly excellent Andrea del Sarto, in whom art and nature combined to show all that may be done in painting, when design, colouring, and invention unite in one and the same person. Had this master possessed a somewhat bolder and more elevated mind, had he been as much distinguished for higher qualifications as he was for genius and depth of judgment in the art he practised, he would