If I can do anything for you let me know; I will do it willingly.

Remember me to Simone il Pollaiuolo."(86) Bramante was not far wrong in what he said about vault painting.

He alluded to the method of foreshortening employed by his fellow countryman, Melozzo da Forli, by which he made figures painted on domes and vaults look as if they were suspended in the air really above the spectators, and not simply a pattern painted on the surface of the plaster; this method was perfected by Correggio, but was never practised successfully by a Florentine..