Margaret_, _S. Peter_, and _S. John the Baptist_
hang on each side of the altar. _S. Agnes_, with her lamb by her
side, is placed on a pilaster towards the southern door. This and _S.
Margaret_ are especially graceful and expressive. There is much of the
feeling of Correggio, but with more natural grace and less voluptuousness.
The cutting and retouching had injured them greatly, but in 1835 Antonio
Garazalli took off the repainting and restored them more delicately.
In 1525 Andrea had a commission to draw cartoons for painting the
balustrade of the Ringhiera--a kind of wide terrace in front of the
Palazzo della Signoria, from which speeches were made to the populace.
His designs were very beautiful and appropriate, the compartments being
emblematical of the different quarters of the city; besides which were
allegories of mountains, rivers, and virtues. The designs were left
unfinished at his death, and the Ringhiera was never painted.
In 1526-7 he worked at the fresco of the _Last Supper_, at S.
Salvi, which was intended to have been done when he began the four
saints there, in 1510, had not some misunderstanding between the rulers
of the order prevented their continuation.
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