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COPY, by Empoli, of Tabernacolo of Porta a Pinti (now lost). Wood, i '90 x 1-30 = 6 ft. 3 x 4.3. [No. 121.] A COPY of a Holy Family, spoken of by Vasari as having been ordered by Giovanni Borgherini, in which the little St. John offers a globe to the Christ. The original picture was offered for sale in 1852, and has since been lost sight of. The Corsini copy is on wood, i 12x0-89 = 3 ft. 8 X2.ii [No. 159], and it would seem that the Virgin's 94 CATALOGUE OF WORKS head was from the same model as that of St. Catherine in the Pitti, No. 123. VILLA OF POGGIO A CAJANO, FLORENCE. Fresco, in Grand Hall. Painted by order of Pope Leo X. A work of great power, gay and varied in colour, and imposing by richness of episodes. The death of Leo X. left the work unfinished till 1580, when Allori completed it. Signed "Anno dm MDXXI. Andrius Sartius pingebat et Anno Domini 1580, Alexander Allorius sequebatur." Engraved : Chiari. THE MUSEUM, NAPLES. COPY of Raffael's Portrait of Leo X. and two Cardinals. Wood, 1-55 x 1-19 = 5 ft - 3X3-i- The original, of which this is a copy, is in the Pitti, No. 40. It having been promised to Frederick Duke of Mantua, Ottaviano substituted a copy by del Sarto, and retained the original in Florence (see page 36). CHURCH OF ST. GIACOMO DEGLI SPAGNAOLI,

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