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where, according to Vasari, he had some years previously painted the Baptism of Christ. \ He now added the Justice with its legend from the Book of Wisdom " Diligite Justitiam qui judicatis terram " (at present travestied into " mandicatis terram ") the Preaching of St John, and the Baptism of the Multitude. These, the books of the society record, were all finished and * Now in the Academia delle belle arti. t Milanesi in his table of dates marks it 1514. If, however, there were but a few months between the painting of this and the preaching of St John, it is strange how suddenly ripened in style, and free and ample in treatment Andrea had become ! 20 ANDREA DEL SARTO paid for by March 1516. In perhaps no one work of the whole series is the power of del Sarto more evident than in that of the Baptism of the Multitude, St John stands by the river, surrounded by a concourse of people, some divesting themselves of their clothing, others in the act of receiving the sacred rite, while others again wait, all in attitudes of utmost eagerness. The figure of the Baptist, as with extended arm he administers the rite, is perfect in its anatomy of muscular strength ; it is full of power, and equally devoid of exaggeration, which was the stumbling-block of so many of the artists of this day. Indeed, we see del Sarto humble as a child before Nature an artist never anxious to emphasise his own powers, but intent upon the right apprehension and