They were painted, as it happens, elsewhere, but moved here without injury.

I think the S.Jerome is the more satisfying, a benevolent old scientific author--a Lord Avebury of the canon--with his implements about him on a tapestry tablecloth, a brass candlestick, his cardinal's hat, and a pair of tortoise-shell eyeglasses handy.

S.Augustine is also scientific; astronomical books and instruments surround him too.

His tablecloth is linen.
Amerigo Vespucci, whose statue we saw in the Uffizi portico colonnade, was a Florentine by birth who settled in Spain and took to exploration.

His discoveries were important, but America is not really among them, for Columbus, whom he knew and supported financially, got there first.