This is by Franciabigio, as is also S.John meeting with Christ, a very charming scene.

Andrea's best and latest is the Birth of the Baptist, which has the fine figure of Zacharias writing in it.

But what he should be writing at that time and place one cannot imagine: more reasonably might he be called a physician preparing a prescription.

On the wall is a terra-cotta bust of S.Antonio, making him much younger than is usual.
Andrea's suave brush we find all over Florence, both in fresco and picture, and this is an excellent place to say something of the man of whom English people have perhaps a more intimate impression than of any other of the old masters, by reason largely of Browning's poem and not a little by that beautiful portrait which for so long was erroneously considered to represent the painter himself, in our National Gallery.

Andrea's life was not very happy.