shed by the aforesaid Girolamo Lombardo and by other
sculptors, as will be seen in the Lives that are to follow. But with
regard to all the works wrought by Andrea in this undertaking, they are
the most beautiful and best executed works of sculpture that had ever
been made up to that time.

In like manner, the Palace of the Canons of the same church was also
carried on by Andrea, after the arrangements made by Bramante at the
commission of Pope Leo. But this, also, remained unfinished after the
death of Andrea, and the building was continued under Clement VII by
Antonio da San Gallo, and then by the architect Giovanni Boccalino,
under the patronage of the very reverend Cardinal da Carpi, up to the
year 1563. While Andrea was at work on the aforesaid Chapel of the
Virgin, there were built the fortifications of Loreto and other works,
which were highly extolled by the all-conquering Signor Giovanni de'
Medici, with whom Andrea had a very strait friendship, having become
first acquainted with him in Rome.

Having four months of holiday in the year for repose while he was
working at Loreto, he used to spend that time in agriculture at his
native place of Monte Sansovino, enjoying meanwhile a most tranquil rest
with his relatives and friends. Living thus at the Monte during the
summer, he built there a commodious house for himself and bought much
property; and for the Friars of S. Agostino in that place he had a
cloister made, which, although small, is very well designed, but also
out of the square, since those Fathers insisted on having it built over
the old walls. Andrea, however, made the interior rectangular by
increasing the thickness of the pilasters at the corners, in order to
change it from an ill-proportioned structure into one with good and true
measurements. He designed, also, for a Company that had its seat in that
cloister, under the title of S. Antonio, a very beautiful door of the
Doric Order; and likewise the tramezzo[3] and pulpit of the Church of S.
Agostino. He also caused a little chapel to be built for the friars
half-way down the hill on the descent to the fountain, without the door
that leads to the old Pieve, although they had no wish for it. He made
the design for the house of Messer Pietro, a most skilful astrologer, at
Arezzo; and a large figure of terra-cotta for Montepulciano, of King
Porsena, which was a rare work, although I have never seen it again
since the first time, so that I fear that it