" He was always a kind and thorough master, his
manner just and fatherly.
Sometimes he and Sansovino or other friends lounged away an hour in the
neighbouring shop of Nanni Unghero, where their mutual friend, Niccolo
Tribolo, did all the hard work, fetching and carrying blocks and saws
grumblingly. Tribolo often begged Sansovino to take him as his pupil,
which he did afterwards, and he became a famous sculptor. One of
Andrea's acquaintances was Baccio Bandinelli, who, as he thought he
could equal Michelangelo in sculpture, imagined that only a knowledge
of Andrea del Sarto's method of colouring was necessary to enable him
to surpass him in painting. To gain this knowledge he proposed to sit
to Andrea for his portrait. His friend, discovering his motive,
succeeded in frustrating it by mixing a quantity of colours in seeming
confusion on his palette, and yet getting from this chaos exactly the
tints he required. So Baccio never rivalled his friend in colouring
after all, not being able to understand his method.
CHAPTER IV.
WORKS IN FLORENCE.
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