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This evidence, with the knowledge that no efforts were made by the king to obtain restitution, or secure punishment for the offender, is enough to make us believe that Vasari's statements on the subject are untrustworthy, and tend to acquit from dishonesty the memory of the simple man who could not tear himself from his wife, and who for her sake was content to break his promises, and to forego the honourable career which awaited him in the French court. During the absence of Andrea in France the Scalzo Brotherhood, not expecting his return, commissioned Franciabigio to proceed with the decoration of their cloister, and he there painted the little St John receiving his father's benediction before his departure for the desert, and the meeting by the way of the same with the child Jesus. These frescoes are certainly inspired by del Sarto, if indeed not taken from his designs. In the Benedic- tion of St John the central figures of the child, St Elizabeth, and Zacharias are unmistakably the work of Franciabigio, heavy of proportion, the heads and hands large, the hair massive, as if sculptured rather than painted. The two young men on the staircase, however, are quite other in their proportions, and the treatment of their hair. Here the type is distinctly that of del Sarto, the head small, and the form Mance, the hair

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