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Chap. XIV GIULIANO BUGIARDINI. 497 The number of Bugiardini’s panels in Bologna might lead to the inference that during the troubles of the years previous to 1530 he remained at a safe distance from Flor ence. His stay at the latter place in 1526 is known to a certainty by the record of payments for decorating the balustrade of the rostrum in the Palace of the Signori.' After the peace he was constantly Michael Angelo’s com panion at Florence, and was wont to divert his melan choly by harmless vanity and amusing self sufficiency. He had the conceit of a Florentine Boswell, following Buonarotti like a shadow, and sunning himself in the borrowed light. 2 When the statues of the Day and Night at S. Lorenzo were finished in 1531, Bugiardini copied the latter on the wing of a triptych with the accompani ment of a lantern in the form used for trapping birds at dark; an idea as ludicrous, says Vasari, as if he had co pied a nightcap, a pillow, or a bat. 3 With some diffi culty he once obtained a sitting from Michael Angelo for his likeness, and having kept him two hours, produced a portrait in which one eye seemed awkwardly trans posed into one of the temples Nothing would induce him to correct the error, for if error there be, he said, it is in the original. 4 The portrait is supposed to be that of raw in colour, not by Paccliia to whom it is ascribed but by Bugiar dini. 1 Arcliiv. di Stnto di Firenze. Stanziilmenti do’ Signori e collegi fr. 1521 to 1527. 233 tergo. Die 5. Octobris 152G. “Item stanziarono clie detti mas- sai, — dieno e paghino al d° Ca- niarlingo della Camera dell’ Anno iior. 20 larglii d’oro in oro netti; — sono per dargli e pagare a Giulia- no Bugiardini dipintore per parte del prezzo del cartone che lui fa del disegno della spalliere della ringbiera del Palazzo, de’ nostri Signori, le quali si anno a fare di nuovo — per essere quelle che di presente si adoprano, consumate, von. in. guaste e disonorevole.” Favoured by G° Milanesi. 2 He was a member of the club of the Cazzuola of which more in the life of Andrea del Sarto (Vas. XII. 11—13). 3 Vas. X. 352. 4 Ib. ib. 350. Michael Angelo succeeded in getting for Bugiardini Sebastian del Piombo’s portrait of Clement the Seventh, from which lie (Giuliano) made a picture of that Pope in company of Baccio Valori (see Gaye II. 228 and Vas. X. 133), and another of the Pope with Fra Niccolo Schomberg archbishop of Capua (Vas. ib. ib.). Bugiardini also copied Raphael’s Leo the Tenth substituting Cardinal Cibo for Cardinal de’ Rossi (ib. ib. X. 350), and he took the likeness of 32