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were decorated by the master with the arms of Cosimo, arranged in various modes and accompanied by his device of the Falcon and Diamond. The paintings here described were all by the hand of Vincenzio di Zoppa, a painter who was held in no small esteem at that time and in that country^nota

It appears that the money expended by Cosimo in the restorations of this palace was paid by Pigello Portinari,^nota a Florentine citizen, who then directed the financial and other affairs of Cosimo in Milan and resided in the palace.

There are certain works in marble and bronze by Michelozzo in Genoa,^nota with many others in other places which are known by their manner. But what we have now said of him must suffice; he died in the 68th^nota year of his age, and was buried in his own tomb in the church of San Marco, in Florence. His portrait, by the hand of Fra Giovanni, is in the sacristy of Santa Trinita, in the figure of an old man with a cap on his head, representing Nicodemus,^nota who is taking the Saviour from the cross. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} || ^[5]

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1. Foppa, and not Zoppa. See Lanzi, History of Painting, vol. ii, pp. 88, 465, et seq.
2. Pigello Portinari caused a sumptuous chapel to be constructed, under the direction of Michelozzo, in the church of Sant’ Eustorgio in Milan. This he dedicated to the Martyr St. Peter: it is on the model of that erected by Brunellesco for the Pazzi family, in the cloister of Santa Croce.
3. It would not be possible now to ascertain the existence of these works, since Vasari does not describe them, nor are they pointed out in the more recent Guides of this city. — Ed. Flor. 1846 -9.
4. More probably seventy-eight.—Ibid.
5. Vasari here alludes to the Deposition from the Cross of Era Giovanni Angelico, now in the Gallery of the Florentine Academy. The figure of Nicodemus has the halo proper to the head of a saint, and is altogether ideal. The head of Michelozzo is pourtrayed in the figure wearing a black head-dress, and who is speaking to the disciple below, as he resigns the body of the Saviour to his care.