would he go on horseback, although he was born from a
noble family in his native place and was rich enough.

Finally, his brother Borgognone having died, he had to go to the
Borgo; and Vasari, who had drawn much of the money of his salary and
had kept it for him, said to him: "See, I have all this money of
yours, it is right that you should take it with you and make use of it
in your requirements." "I want no money," answered Cristofano, "take
it for yourself. For me it is enough to have the luck to stay with you
and to live and die in your company." "It is not my custom," replied
Vasari, "to profit by the labour of others. If you will not have it, I
shall send it to your father Guido." "That you must not do," said
Cristofano, "for he would only waste it, as he always does." In the
end, he took the money and went off to the Borgo, but in poor health
and with little contentment of mind; and after arriving there, what
with his sorrow at the death of his brother, whom he had loved very
dearly, and a cruel flux of the reins, he died in a few days, after
receiving the full sacraments of the Church and distributing to his
family and to many poor persons the money that he had brought. He
declared a little before his death that it grieved him for no other
reason save that he was leaving Vasari too much embarrassed by the
great labours to which he had set his hand in the Palace of the Duke.
Not long afterwards, his Excellency having heard of the death of
Cristofano, and that with true regret, he caused a head of him to be
made in marble and sent it with the underwritten epitaph from Florence
to the Borgo, where it was placed in S. Francesco:

D. O. M.
CHRISTOPHORO GHERARDO BURGENSI
PINGENDI ARTE PRAESTANTISS.
QUOD GEORGIUS VASARIUS ARETINUS HUJUS
ARTIS FACILE PRINCEPS
IN EXORNANDO
COSMI FLORENTIN. DUCIS PALATIO
ILLIUS OPERAM QUAM MAXIME
PROBAVERIT,
PICTORES HETRUSCI POSUERE.
OBIIT A.D. MDLVI.
VIXIT AN. LVI, M. III, D. VI.

JACOPO DA PONTORMO

[Illustration: THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI

(_After the painting by =Jacopo da Pontormo=. Siena: S. Agostino_)

_Anderson_]

LIFE OF JACOPO DA PONTORMO

PAINTER OF FLORENCE

The ancestors--or rather, the elders of Bartolommeo di Jacopo di
Martino, the father of Jacopo da Pontormo, whose Life we are now about
to write--had their origin, so some d