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[Footnote: Crowe and Cavalcaselle, vol. in. chap. xvii. p. 670.] In a
_Holy Family_ in the Louvre, S. Elizabeth's hand is painted across
S. John, and shows the shadow underneath it, being grey at that part.
Though more solid, he could not paint light over dark without injuring
his brilliance of colour.
Albertinelli, on the contrary, when he painted and repainted his
_Annunciation_, washed out the under layer with essential oil
before making his "pentimenti" or corrections, and in this way the
thinness was kept.
In Andrea's early style this thinness is apparent, especially in the
Joseph series, painted for Pier Francesco Borgherini.
Biadi classes Andrea's works in three styles. The first showing the
influence of Piero di Cosimo, the second--to which the best works in
the Servi cloisters belong--is a larger and more natural style, after
the study of Michelangelo and Leonardo.
The third is the natural development in his own practice of a perfect
knowledge of art, and a just appreciation of nature. The _Birth of
the Baptist_ and the _Cenacolo_, of San Salvi, belong to his
last and greatest manner.
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