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Francesco and Domenico Rucellai, for the feast that it fell to them to give when they were masters of the Company, performed first the Arpie of Fineo, and the second time, after a disputation of philosophers on the Trinity, they caused to be represented S. Andrew throwing open a Heaven with all the choirs of the Angels, which was in truth a very rare spectacle.
It will be sufficient here to point out his beautiful early Noli me Tangere , The Portrait of his Wife , the Portrait of Himself , the Portrait of a Lady, with a Petrarch in her hands , and the Madonna dell' Arpie , that statuesque and too grandiose failure that is so near to success.
A full, overhanging upper lip is a dominant feature in each face. Other works of Andrea del Sarto are "Charity," which is in the Louvre; "Madonna dell' Arpie," "A Head of Christ," "The Dead Christ," "Four Saints," "Joseph in Egypt," his own portrait, and "Joseph's Dream." This wonderful man did more kinds of things, at a time when almost all artists were versatile, than any other but one.
Thus, while Florence was the most influential school of art in Italy, her greatest sons do not seem altogether to belong to her: Leonardo, a wanderer all his life, founds his school in Milan, and dies at last in France; Michelangelo becomes almost a Roman painter, the sculptor, the architect in paint of the Sistine Chapel; while Andrea del Sarto appears from the first as a foreigner, the one colourist of the school, only a Florentine in this, that much of his work is, as it were, monumental, composing itself really as with the Madonna delle Arpie or the great Madonna and Saints of the Pitti, for instance into statuesque groups, into sculpture.
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