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where he learned to read and write ; but at the age of seven he was removed, and placed by his father with a goldsmith, where he showed so decided a taste for design in the drawings he furnished for the workshop as to arrest the attention of all around. Amongst others, a neighbour, Gian Barile, himself an artist, though of no very great ability, was struck by the child's extraordinary power and his promise of future excellence ; and he accordingly had him transferred to his own service, and taught him all he knew. Andrea was bound to his new master for three years, but it did not take him that time to exhaust all that Barile could teach ; and then, seeing he could do no more for him, with generous sympathy the kindly master commended the lad to Piero di Cosimo, who was at that time accounted one of the best artists in Florence. Cosimo in his turn taught the child all he could, for he found Barile had not said a word too much for the talented little fellow; and Andrea set himself with eager- 4 ANDREA DEL SARTO ness to learn his profession, and made such progress as colourist and draughtsman as astonished and delighted his proud master, " who considered he displayed a grace and facility which could scarcely have been surpassed by one who had handled colours for fifty years " (Vas. v. 7). All spare moments and festival days were spent