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many of his pictures, are full of charm and poetry, and often repeat themselves in part or in whole, as, for instance, the trees in the Barberini Holy Family, 6o ANDREA DEL SARTO which are identical with those in the Sacrifice of Abraham ; and the hillock which becomes a familiar object in so many of his earlier compositions. Amongst the collection of his sketches in the Uffizi is a series of landscape studies which would appear to have been part of a sketch-book, for one which looks like a title-page is inscribed in his own hand, " Questo Libro si chomincio adl 30 Augosto 1527." Here again we see Nature was his mistress, and content with no second-hand inspiration, he drew direct from her resources, making note of tree, and field, and village scene as he came and went. Hence the secret of our enchantment ! The quiet, smiling valley, the upward tending breezy slope, the evening sun flooding the distant castello in warm golden mist he has seen them all ; and just because these things were in Nature they are in his pictures, and from no mere effort after effect ; and that is why in their direct truthfulness they touch and soothe and elevate us. Morelli says, " Del Sarto's finest chalk drawings aim primarily at pictorial effect, yet the proportions are so faultless, the lines so flowing and full of grace, that his drawings afford me more pleasure than those of any other Italian master, with