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"Because he could not supply everything himself, he had his brothers Ottaviano and Agostino put away their chisels and he set them to producing those works as well. The most beautiful work that came from their hands was, in the church of San Miniato al Monte, the vaulting of the chapel of San Jacopo, where the cardinal of Portugal is buried." II-28 Vault of the chapel of San Jacopo, San Miniato al Monte
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"In the chapter house of Santa Croce, under the direction of Pippo di Ser Brunelleschi, he did all the glazed figures we can see on the inside and outside." II-29
(Some roundels are now attributed to Brunelleschi and Donatello) Pazzi Chapel roundels
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"For Messer Benozzo Federighi, bishop of Fiesole, he made in the church of San Pancrazio a marble tomb with Federighi himself lying on top of it, and with three other half-length figures." II-29
Tomb of Bishop Federighi
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"In the ornamentation of the pilasters of this work, he painted on the level surface some festoons of clusters of fruits and leaves, so liflike and natural that it could not be done better with the brush." II-29
Tomb of Bishop Federighi (detail)
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Tomb of Bishop Federighi (detail)
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"Of the same family Andrea, Luca's nephew, executed in Florence all the figures in glazed terrracotta that are in the loggia if the Hospital of San Paolo..." II-30
SS Antony, Bernard, Elizabeth and Chiara, Hospital of San Paolo
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The meeting of SS Francis and Bernard, Hospital of San Paolo
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"...and likewise the putti both swathed and nude placed in the tondi between one arch and another in the Hospital of the Innocenti..." II-30
Tondo, Innocenti
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Tondi, Innocenti
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"[Andrea's son] Girolamo was taken by certain Florentine merchants to France, where he made many works for King Francis at Madrid, a spot not far from Paris..." II-31
Bust of a man from the Château d'Assier in Figeac, a short distance south of Paris
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