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In Italy. 381 also notice Andrea Solari, Marco d'Oggione, Andrea Salaino, Francisco Melzi, Giovanni Antonio BeltrafTlo, a nobleman who painted for pleasure, and Cesare da Sesto. Gaudenzio Ferrari (1484 — 1549), although not a pupil of Leonardo, was greatly influenced by him. He belongs rather to the old than the new Milanese school. His Last Supper in the refectory of S. Paolo at Vercelli, and his frescoes in the churches of Saronno and Varallo are among his best works. The celebrated Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, surnamed II Sodoma (1473 ? — 1549), must be named as one of Leonardo's cotemporaries who caught much of his peculiar manner. He worked chiefly at Siena, where are still to be seen his Deposition from the Cross in the Academy ; several scenes from the Life of S. Catharine in the chapel of S. Catharine of Siena, in S. Domenico ; and other works in the galleries and churches. In the Villa Farnesina, Rome, two fine frescoes from his hand are preserved — the Marriage of Alexander vrith Ttoxana, and The Wife of Darius pleading for mercy with the victorious Alexander. His 8. Sebastian, probably the finest of all Sebastians that exist, painted on canvas in 1515, and now in the Uffizi, Florence, ranks amongst the best productions of his day, on account of its touching beauty and the expression of intense mental agony given to the head of the youthful martyr. (b) Michelangelo and, Ids School, We have already spoken of the great Florentine, Michel- agniolo Buonarroti (1475 — 1564), both as an architect and sculptor : we have now to consider him as a painter, and we