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BACCIO BANDINELLI.
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degree that he was taken ill and compelled to retire to his
house. Here his malady became daily more serious, and at
the end of eight days he died, being then in his seventy-
second year, and having up to that time been robust and
healthy, without having ever suffered many bodily ailments.
He was buried with honourable obsequies, and his remains
were placed beside those of his father in the above-named
sepulchre, executed, as we have said, by himself, and where-
on was inscribed the following epitaph:—•
d. o. M.
BACCIUS BANDINELL. D1VI JACOBI EQUES
SUB HAC SERVATORIS IMAGINE
A SE EXPRESSA CUM JACOBA DONIA
UXORE QUIESCIT AN. S. MDLIX.
Bandinelli left sons and daughters, who were the heirs of
his large possessions in houses and land, in gold and silver ;
and to the world he left the works in sculpture by us described,
with designs in great numbers, most of which are. in the pos-
session of his children, but some of them we have in our
book of drawings, and these are so good that better could
scarcely be.
After Baccio’s death the contest respecting the block of
marble became more eager than ever. Benvenuto being
constantly about the Duke respecting it, and considering
himself to have the best right to the same, in virtue of a
small wax model which he had prepared, and for which he
desired that the Duke would give him the block ; while
Ammannato, as being a sculptor of marbles, and more ex-
tensively experienced in such works than Benvenuto, thought
that for many reasons the work did more justly appertain to
himself.
Now at that time it happened that Giorgio Vasari had to
go to Rome with the Cardinal, the son of the Duke, at the
period of his receiving the Hat namely, when Ammannato
gave to the former a small model in wax, according to the
iigurc which he desired to extract from that marble, with a
piece of wood of the exact size in length and width of the
marble in question, and of similar shape and inclination to
that presented by the block, to the. end that Giorgio might
take them to Rome, and there show them to Michelagnolo
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degree that he was taken ill and compelled to retire to his
house. Here his malady became daily more serious, and at
the end of eight days he died, being then in his seventy-
second year, and having up to that time been robust and
healthy, without having ever suffered many bodily ailments.
He was buried with honourable obsequies, and his remains
were placed beside those of his father in the above-named
sepulchre, executed, as we have said, by himself, and where-
on was inscribed the following epitaph:—•
d. o. M.
BACCIUS BANDINELL. D1VI JACOBI EQUES
SUB HAC SERVATORIS IMAGINE
A SE EXPRESSA CUM JACOBA DONIA
UXORE QUIESCIT AN. S. MDLIX.
Bandinelli left sons and daughters, who were the heirs of
his large possessions in houses and land, in gold and silver ;
and to the world he left the works in sculpture by us described,
with designs in great numbers, most of which are. in the pos-
session of his children, but some of them we have in our
book of drawings, and these are so good that better could
scarcely be.
After Baccio’s death the contest respecting the block of
marble became more eager than ever. Benvenuto being
constantly about the Duke respecting it, and considering
himself to have the best right to the same, in virtue of a
small wax model which he had prepared, and for which he
desired that the Duke would give him the block ; while
Ammannato, as being a sculptor of marbles, and more ex-
tensively experienced in such works than Benvenuto, thought
that for many reasons the work did more justly appertain to
himself.
Now at that time it happened that Giorgio Vasari had to
go to Rome with the Cardinal, the son of the Duke, at the
period of his receiving the Hat namely, when Ammannato
gave to the former a small model in wax, according to the
iigurc which he desired to extract from that marble, with a
piece of wood of the exact size in length and width of the
marble in question, and of similar shape and inclination to
that presented by the block, to the. end that Giorgio might
take them to Rome, and there show them to Michelagnolo
VOL. IV. U