pright, he died, infirm and decrepit, at the age of
seventy-eight, and was buried in Ognissanti at Florence in the year
1515.

In the guardaroba of the Lord Duke Cosimo there are two very beautiful
heads of women in profile by his hand, one of which is said to be the
mistress of Giuliano de' Medici, brother of Lorenzo, and the other
Madonna Lucrezia de' Tornabuoni, wife of the said Lorenzo. In the same
place, likewise by the hand of Sandro, is a Bacchus who is raising a
cask with both his hands, and putting it to his mouth--a very graceful
figure. And in the Duomo of Pisa he began an Assumption, with a choir of
angels, in the Chapel of the Impagliata; but afterwards, being
displeased with it, he left it unfinished. In S. Francesco at
Montevarchi he painted the panel of the high-altar; and in the Pieve of
Empoli, on the same side as the S. Sebastian of Rossellino, he made two
angels. He was among the first to discover the method of decorating
standards and other sorts of hangings with the so-called inlaid work, to
the end that the colours might not fade and might show the tint of the
cloth on either side. By his hand, and made thus, is the baldacchino of
Orsanmichele, covered with beautiful and varied figures of Our Lady;
which proves how much better such a method preserves the cloth than does
the use of mordants, which eat it away and make its life but short,
although, being less costly, mordants are now used more than anything
else.

Sandro's drawings were extraordinarily good, and so many, that for some
time after his death all the craftsmen strove to obtain some of them;
and we have some in our book, made with great mastery and judgment. His
scenes abounded with figures, as may be seen from the embroidered border
of the Cross that the Friars of S. Maria Novella carry in processions,
all made from his design. Great was the praise, then, that Sandro
deserved for all the pictures that he chose to make with diligence and
love, as he did the aforesaid panel of the Magi in S. Maria Novella,
which is marvellous. Very beautiful, too, is a little round picture by
his hand that is seen in the apartment of the Prior of the Angeli in
Florence, in which the figures are small but very graceful and wrought
with beautiful consideration. Of the same size as the aforesaid panel of
the Magi, and by the same man's hand, is a picture in the possession of
Messer Fabio Segni, a gentlemen of Florence, in which there is painted
the Calumny