l of
Ten, dividing the pictures between them. Not long afterwards, having
been summoned to Vicenza, Battista executed many works there, both
within and around the city; and recently he has painted the facade of
the Monte della Pieta, wherein he has executed an infinite number of
nude figures in various attitudes, larger than life, with very good
design, and all in so few months, that it has been a marvel. And if he
has done so much at so early an age (for he is not yet past thirty),
everyone may imagine what may be expected of him in the course of his
life.

A Veronese, likewise, is one Paolino, a painter who is in very good
repute in Venice at the present day, in that, although he is not yet
more than thirty years of age, he has executed many works worthy of
praise. This master, who was born at Verona to a stone-cutter, or, as
they say in those parts, a stone-hewer, after having learned the
rudiments of painting from Giovanni Caroto of Verona, painted in
fresco, in company with the above-named Battista, the hall of the
Paymaster and Assessor Portesco at Tiene, in the Vicentino; and
afterwards at the Soranza, with the same companion, many works
executed with good design and judgment and a beautiful manner. At
Masiera, near Asolo in the Trevisano, he has painted the very
beautiful house of Signor Daniello Barbaro, Patriarch-elect of
Aquileia. At Verona, for the Refectory of S. Nazzaro, a monastery of
Black Friars, he has painted in a large picture on canvas the supper
that Simon the Leper gave to Our Lord, when the woman of sin threw
herself at His feet, with many figures, portraits from life, and very
rare perspective-views; and under the table are two dogs so beautiful
that they appear real and alive, and further away certain cripples
executed excellently well.

[Illustration: THE FEAST IN THE HOUSE OF LEVI

(_After the painting by =Paolo Veronese [Paolino _or_ Caliari]=. Venice:
Accademia, 203_)

_Anderson_]

By the hand of Paolino, in the Hall of the Council of Ten at Venice,
in an oval that is larger than certain others that are there, placed,
as the principal one, in the centre of the ceiling, is a Jove who is
driving away the Vices, in order to signify that that supreme and
absolute tribunal drives away vice and chastises wicked and vicious
men. The same master painted the soffit, or rather, ceiling of the
Church of S. Sebastiano, which is a very rare work, and the
altar-piece of the principal chapel, toge