In  1512  Sansovino  sculptured  a  marble  group  cf  the
Madonna  and  Child  with  St.  Anne,  for  James  Corycius,  a
German  prelate  noted  as  a  patron  of  literature  and  the  arts,
whose  praises,  sung  in  one  hundred  and  twenty  Latin  sonnets
which  were  affixed  to  it  in  the  church  of  S.  Agostino,  and  after-
wards published  in  a  volume  called  Coryciano,  were  prompted,
we  surmise,  by  the  gratitude  of  the  recipients  of  his  bounty,
rather  than  by  the  merits  of  the  gronp.
After  terminating  this  work,  our  sculptor  was  sent  to  Loreto
by  Pope  Leo  X.  (1513)  to  superintend  and  assist  in  decorating
the  exterior  of  the  marble  temple  which  encloses  the  ''  Santa
Casa "  with  bas-reliefs,  of  which  he  modelled  the  Nativity
(1528),  and  the  Annunciation  (1522),  and  began  the  Adoration
of  the  Kings,  and  the  birth,  marriage,  and  death  of  the  Virgin.
