Chap. XII. LORENZO LI CREDI. 41.1 prettily surrounds the Virgin with a guard of angels in whispering converse. A tender and half sorrowing affec tion is in the Virgin, on her knees before the child, and the action of both seems inspired from Fra Filippo rather than from any other master. The shepherds also might presuppose the study of Ghirlandaio by a later painter of a less rugged fibre. The Baptist is drawn with the soft outlines of Luini, and the S. Joseph is Perugi- nesque in air and pose. During the later period of his life, Lorenzo’s pro ductions preserved an uniformity which leaves little room for fresh remark. His frequent employment as a restorer of old pictures is a proof of the confidence that was placed in his experience. 1 The honorable station which he held, led to his appointment on many occasions as valuer of pictures by other masters. 2 He outlived the terrors of the siege of Florence in 1527, retired into the hospital of S. M. Nuova on an annuity in 1531, 3 and died on the 12 lh of January 1537. 4 The following list is a necessary addition: Florence. Orsanmichele. S. Bartholomew on a pilaster very much clouded by dirt. (Vas. VIII. 204. Albertini, Mem. p. 14, and Richa, Cliicse. I. 26.) Florence. Sla. Maria del Fiore. Sacristy of the canons. Figure of the Archangel Michael, executed about 1523; feeble and of a reddish tone (Vas. VIII. 206. 210). Same church. Chapel in Tribuna della Croce. Figure of S. Joseph, weak and much injured; wood, oil (Vas. VIII. 205). 1 We have seen (vol. I. p. 583)' that he restored, in 1501, an altar- piece by Angelico in S. Domenico of Fiesole. In 1524, he performed the same operation at S. M. del Fiore, on the Hawkwood of Uccelli, the Nicholas di Tolentino by Castagno, six apostles by an unknown hand, and two sepul chres (of Fra Luigi Marsili and Cardinal Pietro Corsini). Annot. Vas. VIII. 206. 2 1514 he appraises KidolfoGhir- andaio’s pictures in the cappella de’ Signori at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence (Vas. annot. VIII. 209). 1517, he valued a statue by Baccio Bandinelli (Temenza, life of San sovino. ub. sup. p. 7, and annotat. Vas. VIII. 210. In 1508, he colour ed a crucifix by Benedetto da Mai- ano (Vas. VIII. 206. 209), and was witness to the will of Cronaca. 3 Gaye, Carteggio, I. 374, and annot. Vas. VIII. 206. 7. 10. His will is dated 1531. See antea. 4 Tav. Alfab. ub. sup. ad lit.
