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484 THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Chap. XIV CHAPTER XIV. MARIOTTO ALBERTINELLI AND BUGIARDINI. The unimpeachable testimony of records has served to impress with an additional stamp of truth the opinion of Vasari as to the life and character of Mariotto Alber- tinelli. Born on the 13 th of October 1474/ and put by his father Biagio di Bindo to the trade of gold beating, he soon tired of the monotony peculiar to this occupation and exchanged it for that of a painter. His choice of Cosimo Rosselli as a master threw him into contact with Baccio della Porta with whom he speedily entered into cordial friendship; and such was the inclination felt by the two apprentices towards each other that, their companion ship became inseparable; and Mariotto derived from his style the name of a second Fra Bartolommeo. 2 We shall not dwell anew on the incidents which pre ceded the monastic retirement of della Porta; nor is it necessary to do more than bear in mind, that when the Last Judgment of S. Maria Nuova was left unfinished, Mariotto remained charged with its completion. What chiefly interests us is to see that during Baccio’s novitiate, Mariotto continued the pursuits which had hitherto been carried on in common, and gave signs of a talented and promising manner resembling in prin ciples as well as in technical methods that of his old partner. 1 Register of Baptisms at Flo- I 2 Vas. VII. 180. rence in Tav. Alfab. ad lit. ct an. |