He decorated the Papal Hall for Leo X.'s
entrance, and later began to be employed on more serious and lasting
works.
Some good frescoes of his existed in the convent of Santa Caterina, but
were destroyed when the building was reconstructed in 1688.
A very charming fresco of the _Visitation_ still exists in the
court of the SS. Annunziata. It shows him as a good pure colourist, the
flesh tints being especially tender; the composition is lively, full,
and effective.
In 1518 he painted a fine altar-piece for the church of S. Michele
Visdomini, Florence, by commission of Francesco Pucci. The
_Madonna_, seated, is showing the Child Jesus to S. Joseph, whose
face is most expressive and full of smiling admiration. S. John Baptist
stands near, at the sides are S. John Evangelist, S. James, and S.
Francis, the latter kneeling in ecstatic admiration.
In some cases he was placed in direct competition with his master,
Andrea del Sarto, being employed by Borgherini to paint the coffers and
cabinets in the same room for which Andrea did the _History of
Joseph_; and again later at Poggio a Cajano, where the ends of the
great hall were assigned to him to paint, Andrea and Francia Bigio
taking the larger walls at the sides.
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