the lesser door, which is beside the counter where
candles are sold. The third was sent to S. Maria degli Angeli at Assisi,
and set up before the Madonna of that place, where the same Lorenzo de'
Medici, as has been already related, caused the road to be paved with
bricks all the way from S. Maria to that gate of Assisi which leads to
S. Francesco, besides restoring the fountains that his grandfather
Cosimo had caused to be made in that place. But to return to the images
of wax: all those in the said Servite Church are by the hand of Orsino,
which have a large O in the base as a mark, with an R within it and a
cross above; and they are all so beautiful that there are few since his
day who have equalled him. This art, although it has remained alive up
to our own time, is nevertheless rather on the decline than otherwise,
either because men's devoutness has diminished, or for some other
reason, whatever it may be.

And to return to Verrocchio; besides the aforesaid works, he made
Crucifixes of wood, with certain things of clay, in which he was
excellent, as may be seen from the models for the scenes that he
executed for the altar of S. Giovanni, from certain very beautiful boys,
and from a head of S. Jerome, which is held to be marvellous. By the
hand of the same man is the boy on the clock of the Mercato Nuovo, who
has his arms working free, in such a manner that he can raise them to
strike the hours with a hammer that he holds in his hands; which was
held in those times to be something very beautiful and fanciful. And let
this be the end of the Life of that most excellent sculptor, Andrea
Verrocchio.

There lived in the time of Andrea one Benedetto Buglioni, who received
the secret of glazed terra-cotta work from a woman related to the house
of Andrea della Robbia; wherefore he made many works in that manner both
in Florence and abroad, particularly a Christ rising from the dead, with
certain angels, which, for a work in glazed terra-cotta, is beautiful
enough, in the Church of the Servi, near the Chapel of S. Barbara. He
made a Dead Christ in a chapel in S. Pancrazio, and the lunette that is
seen over the principal door of the Church of S. Pietro Maggiore. From
Benedetto the secret descended to Santi Buglioni, the only man who now
knows how to work at this sort of sculpture.

ANDREA MANTEGNA

[Illustration: THE MARTYRDOM OF S. JAMES

(_After the fresco by =Andrea Mantegna=. Padua: Eremitani_)

_Anderson_]