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shouldst surpass me it would be to my perpetual shame ! " and then, turning to Messer Baldo, he told him he would do well to give the work to Soggi, who, he said, would be sure to do it in such a manner as would please the country folk going to market. In 1525 Andrea painted the famous lunette of the Servite cloister, known as the Madonna del Sacco. It is said to have been done at the expense of a lady, whose director bade her expiate a vow she was under, by defraying the cost of the fresco. This is a work of the highest order ; of scientific and noble grouping, of which Vasari says that, "for drawing, grace and beauty of colouring, and for liveliness and relief, del Sarto was far above all other artists of the time" (Vas. v. 45). Cinelli describes the faded red dress and blue mantle of the Virgin as beautifully painted, and says the Child is " lifelike in movement " (p. 457), while Rossini says : " the Madonna del Sacco is characterised by grace, sweetness, dignity, and simplicity." The original sketch for the St Joseph, in red chalk, is in the Louvre collection ; the sack upon which he leans gives its name to the fresco. 42 ANDREA DEL SARTO Reumont speaks of a sketch for this lunette as being in France, and says there was a similar one in the collection of Professor Campi, in Florence, in which