It was existing in the collection
of the Gaddi Pozzi family in Borghini's time.
3. _Annunciation_, for Giovanni di Paolo Merciajo, now in the Hall
of Saturn in the Pitti Palace. It is a pretty composition, the Virgin
sitting, yet half kneeling, the angel on his knees before her. There is
a yellowish light in the sky between two looped dark green curtains;
the angel's yellow robe takes the light beautifully.
4. _Madonna and Child_, in the "Hall of the Education of Jupiter"
in the Pitti Palace, one of his most pleasing groups. This is supposed
by the commentators of Vasari to be the altarpiece painted for Giovanni
di Paolo Merciajo, but Biadi traces it through the possession of
Antonio, son of Zanobi Bracci, to its present possessors. The mistake
arises from Vasari often confusing the names Annunciations and
Assumptions with Madonnas.
5. A _Holy Family_, for Andrea Santini, which awakened great
admiration in Florence. It was in the possession of Signer Alessandro
Curti Lepri, by whose permission Morghen's print was taken.
6. The _Head of our Saviour_, over the altar of the SS.
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