d be taken in hand, which is
called the Chapel of the Incoronata and stands immediately at the
entrance of the church, on the left hand. The same Moschino, in
connection with the nuptial festivities of her most serene Majesty
Queen Joanna and the most illustrious Prince of Florence, has
acquitted himself very well in those works that were given him to do.

GIROLAMO AND BARTOLOMMEO GENGA, AND GIOVAN BATTISTA SAN MARINO,
SON-IN-LAW OF GIROLAMO

LIVES OF GIROLAMO AND BARTOLOMMEO GENGA, AND OF GIOVAN BATTISTA SAN
MARINO, SON-IN-LAW OF GIROLAMO

Girolamo Genga, who was of Urbino, was apprenticed by his father at
the age of ten to the wool trade, but he followed it with the greatest
ill-will, and, according as he could find time and place, he was for
ever drawing in secret with charcoal or an ordinary pen. Which
circumstance being observed by some friends of his father, they
exhorted him to remove the boy from that trade and to set him to
painting; wherefore he placed Girolamo with certain masters of little
reputation in Urbino. But, having seen his beautiful manner, and that
he was like to make proficience, when the boy was fifteen years of age
the father apprenticed him to Maestro Luca Signorelli of Cortona, an
excellent master in painting of that time; with whom he stayed many
years, following him to the March of Ancona, to Cortona, and to many
other places where he executed works, and in particular to Orvieto, in
the Duomo of which city, as has been related, Luca painted a chapel of
Our Lady with an infinite number of figures. At this our Girolamo
worked continually, and he was always one of the best disciples that
Luca had.

Then, having parted from Signorelli, he placed himself with Pietro
Perugino, a much esteemed painter, with whom he stayed about three
years, giving considerable attention to perspective, which was so well
grasped and understood by him, that it may be said that he became very
excellent therein, even as is evident from his works in painting and
architecture. This was at the same time that there was with Pietro the
divine Raffaello da Urbino, who was much the friend of Girolamo.

After leaving Pietro, he went off to live in Florence, where he
studied for some considerable time. Then, having gone to Siena, he
stayed there for months and even years with Pandolfo Petrucci, in
whose house he painted many rooms, which, from their being very well
designed and coloured in a pleasing manner,