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portraitist, acquired considerable credit in Rome ; Nannoccio ; Solosmeo, from whose hand a picture still remains in the Badia of S. Fedele at Poppi, which is dated M.D.XXVII. ; and Domenico Conti, the grateful scholar, who erected a tablet in the Church of the Servites, to his master's memory. Besides these there were Jacopo di Michele, or Jacone, as he was familiarly called, who was a warm friend and close imitator of the manner of del Sarto ; and Andrea Chiazzella (miscalled Sguazzella by Vasari) who accompanied del Sarto to France, and there painted many pictures in his master's manner. The Castle of Semblan^ay, in the neighbourhood of Paris, was decorated by this artist, but its treasures were wrecked during the Revolution of 1793, but one altar-piece escaping destruction.t Not a few from amongst del Sarto's pupils were driven from his workshop by the imperious character of Lucrezia, his wife, who " had respect for no one." Others held on in the face of difficulties, there being no other * A "Charity" by him is in the National Gallery. t See De Laborde, La Renaissance des Arts & la Cour de France, i. 35. 62 ANDREA DEL SARTO master like Andrea to be found in Florence! Vasari was apparently one of these latter, but he took an ungenerous revenge for all the "tribulations" he may have had to suffer, by publishing in the first edition of

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