Paolo sent it to Naples.
5. An unfinished painting of _Abraham holding Isaac by the Hand_,
now in the possession of the Zonadari family, who obtained it from the
Peruzzi.
During the siege, work was found for artists, but of an unpleasant
nature. Andrea was commissioned, in 1530, to paint the effigies of some
traitors on the palace of the Signoria. He dared not refuse, but
remembering that his namesake, Andrea del Castagno, who had been
similarly employed, gained the name of "Andrea degli Impiccati," he was
anxious that the same name should not attach to himself. Accordingly he
had an enclosed platform made, and giving out that his pupil,
Bernardino del Buda, was going to paint the effigies, he worked at them
himself secretly, till, on being uncovered, they seemed to be real
persons writhing on the gibbet.
No trace of them remains now, but the studies are in the collection of
drawings in the Uffizi.
A fine half-length figure of _S. Sebastian_, for the brotherhood
of that name, which had its head-quarters in the street in which Andrea
lived, was almost his last work in Florence.
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