demeanour by which each was in turn offended. Among these disciples, then, were Jacopo da Pontormo and Andrea Sguazzella, the latter of whom remained constant to the manner of his master. By him there is a palace in France, at a short distance from Paris namely, which is very much extolled. Solosmeo; Pier Francesco di Jacopo di Sandro, who painted three pictures in the church of Santo Spirito, and Francesco Salviati, were likewise of the number, as was Giorgio Vasari, of Arezzo, a companion of Salviati, although he did not remain long with Andrea. The Florentine, Jacopo del Conte, was also one of Andrea’s disciples, and that Nannoccio,[1] who is now in France, and in high credit with the Cardinal de Tournon, was another.
Jacopo, called Jacone, was not only the disciple but the friend of Andrea, of whose manner he was a zealous imitator. His master constantly availed himself of his assistance, even to the day of his death, as may be perceived in all his works, but more particularly in that executed for the Cavaliere Buondelmonti, on the Piazza of Santa Trinita.[2]
The drawings of Andrea del Sarto, and other possessions relating to art which he left at his death, were inherited by Domenico Conti, who did not make any very distinguished progress in the art of painting. He is said to have been robbed one night of all the designs, cartoons, and other things which had belonged to Andrea; and this was done, as it is believed, by some who belonged to the same vocation, but w'ho those persons were has never been discovered.
Now this Domenico was not ungrateful for the benefits which he had received from his master, and being anxious, after his death, to render him all the honours which he had merited, he prevailed on Baffaello da Monte Lupo to make him a tolerably handsome monument in marble, which was built into the wall of the church of the Servites, with the following inscription, written by the very learned Messer Piero Vettori, who was then very young:—
