For a while, as a monk, he laid aside the brush, but in 1506 he resumed it and painted until his death, in 1517.

He was buried at S.Marco.
In his less regenerate days Fra Bartolommeo's greatest friend was the jovial Mariotto Albertinelli, whose rather theatrical Annunciation hangs between a number of the monk's other portraits, all very interesting.

Of Albertinelli I have spoken earlier.

Before leaving, look at the tiny Ignoto next the door--a Madonna and Child, the child eating a pomegranate.

It is a little picture to steal.
In the next room are a number of the later and showy painters, such as Carlo Dolci, Lorenzo Lippi, and Francesco Furini, all bold, dashing, self-satisfied hands, in whom (so near the real thing) one can take no interest.