For his great friend Messer Polo Zambeccaro, Francia painted, as Vasari tells us, ??? a tolerably large picture representing the Birth of Christ which was much extolled.??? This work now hangs in the gallery at Forli, and must be given to this period; but in some places it is curiously stiff, notably in one of the kneeling angels, and the method in which it is painted differs from that of any pict