of figures, which are recognised
by artists from their style. For the company of the Temple he painted
the tabernacle which is at the corner of the via del Crocifisso,
containing a fine deposition from the cross. In the cloister of S.
Spirito he did two scenes in the arches next the chapter-house, in
one of which he represented Judas selling Christ, and in the other
the Last Supper with the Apostles. In the same convent over the door
of the refectory he painted a crucifix and some saints, which
distinguish him, among the others who worked there, as a true
imitator of the style of Giotto, whom he always held in the highest
veneration. In S. Stefano of the Ponte Vecchio he painted the picture
and predella of the high altar with great care, and in the oratory of
S. Michele in Orto he very skilfully represented in a picture a dead
Christ, wept over by Mary, and deposited in the sepulchre by
Nicodemus with great devotion. In the church of the Servites he
painted the chapel of St Nicholas, belonging to the Palagio family,
with stories of that saint, where, in his painting of a barque, he
has clearly shown with the greatest judgment and grace, that he had a
thorough knowledge of a tempestuous sea and of the fury of Fortune.
In this work St Nicholas appears in the air, while the mariners are
emptying the ship and throwing out the merchandise, and frees them
from their danger. This work gave great satisfaction and was much
admired, so that Taddeo was commissioned to paint the chapel of the
high altar of that church. Here he did in fresco some stories of Our
Lady, and in tempera on a panel, Our Lady with many saints, a very
vigorous representation. Similarly, on the predella of this picture
he did some stories of Our Lady in small figures, into the details of
which it is not necessary to enter, because everything was destroyed
in the year 1467 when Ludovico, Marquis of Mantua, made in that place
the tribune which is there now, from the design of Leon Battista
Alberti, and the choir of the friars, causing the picture to be taken
to the chapter-house of that convent, in the refectory of which he
made above the wooden backs, the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the
Apostles, and above that a crucifix with many saints. When Taddeo had
completed this work he was invited to Pisa where he painted the
principal chapel of S. Francesco in fresco, very well coloured, for
Gherardo and Bonaccorso Gambacorti, with many figures and stories of