e._ of two scudi each] della Tavola dell' Altar grande e di
una mezza tavola della Visitazione, da Donna Caterina della Casa
Fiorentina, Badessa di Luco." [Footnote: 2 Vol. in. p, 571, note.]
Andrea was paid ten florins for the _Head of the Saviour_, through
his assistant, Raffaello. This receipt would prove either that he went
to Luco later than 1524, or that he returned there to finish the works
in the year 1528.
On their return to Florence in the autumn Andrea painted a fine work
for his friend, Beccuccio da Gambassi, a glass-worker. It is an
apotheosis of the _Madonna_, with four figures beneath--S. John
Baptist, Mary Magdalen, S. Sebastian, and S. Rocco; not S.
_Onofrio_, as Bottari has named it. The predella, now lost, had
portraits of the patron and his wife. Crowe and Cavalcaselle speak of
six saints in this picture, four standing and two kneeling.
This description seems to point more certainly to the Sarzana
_Madonna_, which is now in the Hall of Apollo, in the Pitti
Palace. That for Beccuccio is described, with the four above-mentioned
saints only, by all the Italian authors.
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