1268, having a beautiful blue Madonna and a pretty little cherub with a red book.

Piero di Cosimo is here, religious and not mythological; and here are a very straightforward and satisfying Mariotto Albertinelli--the "Virgin and S.Elizabeth," very like a Fra Bartolommeo; a very rich and beautiful "Deposition" by Botticini, one of Verrocchio's pupils, with a gay little predella underneath it, and a pretty "Holy Family" by Franciabigio.

But Andrea remains the king of the walls.
From this Sala a little room is gained which I advise all tired visitors to the Uffizi to make their harbour of refuge and recuperation; for it has only three or four pictures in it and three or four pieces of sculpture and some pleasant maps and tapestry on the walls, and from its windows you look across the brown-red tiles to S.Miniato.The pictures, although so few, are peculiarly attractive, being the work of two very rare hands, Piero della Francesca (?
1398-1492) and Melozzo da Forli (1438-1494).

Melozzo has here a very charming Annunciation in two panels, the fascination of which I cannot describe.

That they are fascinating there is, however, no doubt.