The
precaution of covering the cloister with a glass roof has only been
taken in modern times, and too late.
Andrea's next patrons were the Eremite monks of S. Agostino, at San
Gallo, who ordered of him two pictures for their church. In 1511 he
painted _Christ appearing to Mary Magdalen_, and an _Annunciation_ in
1512. The former is said to have had much softness and delicacy, the
latter is to be seen in the Hall of Mars at the Pitti, and is a very
pleasing picture. The Virgin kneels at her prayer desk, S. Joseph behind
her--a rather unusual rendering of the subject--her attitude is graceful
and decorous, the angel calm and gentle, floats in mid air, two other
angels stand on the left. The colouring is varied in the extreme, and the
lights well defined.
These two pictures, and the _Disputa_, painted later, were removed
to the church of S. Jacopo tra Fossi, when the convent was demolished
in 1529. They were still there in 1677, when Bocchi wrote his _Bellezze
di Firenze_, but the _Christ appearing to Mary Magdalen_ is said to be
now in the church of the Covoni in the Casentino.
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