The brotherhood of the Servites engages Andrea del Sarto to do two more frescoes in the forecourt of the Annunziata: a Procession of the Magi (or Adoration, containing a self-portrait) finished in 1511.

Towards 1512 he paints a psychologically animated Annunciation in the monastery of S. Gallo and a Marriage of Saint Catherine (Dresden).

Italian diplomat, historian, and political thinker Francesco Guicciardini serves the Florentine Republic in 1512 as ambassador to the court of Ferdinand II of Aragon.