One of the many works he signed with interlacing X's is a version of the Sacrifice of Isaac he painted for Francis I. He had a lifelong relationship with the Chiostro dello Scalzo, painting for it a series of gray monochrome frescoes depicting the life of St. John the Baptist.
Vasari tells of how Ottaviano de' Medici commissioned this artist to make a forgery of a Raphael picture of Pope Leo to send to the Duke of Mantua. One of the many works he signed with interlacing X's is a version of the Sacrifice of Isaac he painted for Francis I. He had a lifelong relationship with the Chiostro dello Scalzo, painting for it a series of gray monochrome frescoes depicting the life of St. John the Baptist. In his most famous painting, the Latin inscription of a hymn to Our Lady of the Assumption can be read on a hexagonal pedestal below the first three letters of each of his names. On the left of that work, he painted a gray-clad St. Francis holding a cross and on the right St. John wears a bright red robe and holds a book open. The central figure of that work also holds a book as her legs are grabbed by putti. For 10 points, name this "faultless" Renaissance painter of Madonna of the Harpies.
Vasari tells of how Ottaviano de' Medici commissioned this artist to make a forgery of a Raphael picture of Pope Leo to send to the Duke of Mantua.
{Andrea del Sarto}