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Wanhuisen being Italianised into Vannucchi. This story is apocryphal. Andrea's name appears under various forms; at one time he signs himself "Andrea d'Agnolo," at another (as in the Libro Manoscritto di Memorie dei PP. della SS. Annunziata di Firenze dal 1280 al 1534) he is "Maestro Andrea d'Agnolo"; while, in a receipt given by his hand to the Abbess of Luco in 1528 for a sum of 80 florins paid by her, he signs himself "Andrea d'Agnolo del Sarto," and the inter- laced initials ft are to be found on some of his frescoes, notably on the Baptism of Christ in the Scalzo, and on the Epiphany in the SS. Annunziata. In Andrea's will, which is written in Latin, and EARLY YEARS 3 dated 1527, he is " Magister Andreas Angeli Francisci pictor Florentinus," and in the receipt given to his wife's father, Bartolomeo del Fede, for her fortune, he appears as " Andreas Angeli Francisci vocato Andreas del Sarto, populi Sancti Marci de Florentia pictor." On the pedestal of his famous Madonna dell' Arpie, now in the Uffizi Gallery, he signs himself "And: Sar: Flo:," and in the old book of the Florentine Painters he is twice spoken of in the year 1525 "Andrea di A. Sarto, dipintore," and "Andrea dagnolo del Sarto, dipintore." When a very little boy Andrea was sent to school,

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