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[Pitli Palace, Floience THE MADONNA AND SAINTS EARLY YEARS 5 In character these two young men had much in common ; both were " good, modest, and complaisant," and in their early works the influence of each upon the other can be felt. Vasari says that oneof their first united labours was to paint the hangings which covered the pictures of the High Altar in the Church of the Servites ; but these have long disappeared, and are since supposed to have been the work of one Andrea Feltrini, 1510. The next labour of the two friends was of far greater importance. At the head of the Via Larga, now known as Via Cavour, in some buildings near the house of Ottaviano de' Medici, the Brotherhood of the Scalzo, dedicated to St John Baptist, were accustomed to meet, and here they caused a church and cloisters and other buildings to be erected, of which all that now remains is the little cloister with its colonnade of Corinthian pillars with their gruesome decorations of skulls and cross- bones. The confraternity had been formed in 1376, and had gained its name " Dello Scalzo " from the fact that in their public processions the brother who carried the crucifix always walked barefooted. It was not till the end of the fifteenth century that the cloister was built, and the confraternity, having heard so much of del Sarto's talents, were determined