(Francisco), a celebrated painter, born at Savignano, a village 10 miles from Florence, in the year 1469, was the disciple of Cosimo Rosselli, but was much more beholden to the works of Leonarda da Vinci for his extraordinary skill in painting. He was well versed in the fundamentals of design. Raphael, after quitting the school of Perugino, applied to this master; and under him studied the rules of perspective, with the art of managing and uniting his colours. In the year 1500, he turned Dominican friar; and some time after was sent by his superiors to the convent of St Martin, in Florence. He painted both portraits and histories; but his scrupulous con-

science would hardly ever suffer him to draw naked figures, though nobody understood them better. He died in 1517, aged 48.