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| | Andrea del Sarto - Biography and Gallery of Art |
 | | But Andrea displayed far more genius in his John baptising the multitudes, some undressing, some receiving baptism, and some waiting their turn, already undressed, the expression of all being intense in their anxiety to be cleansed of sin, while all the figures are so excellently done that they resemble a marble group. |
 | | Andrea was suggested to him, among others, and although not knowing much of the matter, M. Baldo had almost made up his mind to employ him when one Niccolo Soggi, of Sansovino, who had friends in Prato, was recommended to M. Baldo and obtained the work, as they said no better master could be had. |
 | | Andrea's death was a great loss to the city and to art, because he improved steadily until his forty-second and last year, and would have continued so to do, because more certain progress is won thus gradually than by a spurt. |
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