utiful adornments of draperies and vestments, for the
reason that he much delighted to counterfeit cloth of gold and of
silver, velvets, damasks, and other draperies of every kind, which he
used to place on the figures with great diligence. The heads by the hand
of that master are very lifelike, and hold to the manner of Raffaello da
Urbino, and even more would they hold to it if he had not lived so far
from Raffaello.

The son-in-law of Alessandro was Lattanzio Gambara, a painter of
Brescia, who, having learned his art, as has been related, under Giulio
Campo of Verona,[3] is now the best painter that there is in Brescia. By
his hand, in the Black Friars Church of S. Faustino, are the altar-piece
of the high-altar, and the vaulting and walls painted in fresco, with
other pictures that are in the same church. In the Church of S. Lorenzo,
also, the altar-piece of the high-altar is by his hand, with two scenes
that are on the walls, and the vaulting, all painted in fresco almost in
the same manner. He has also painted, besides many other facades, that
of his own house, with most beautiful inventions, and likewise the
interior; in which house, situated between S. Benedetto and the
Vescovado, I saw, when I was last in Brescia, two very beautiful
portraits by his hand, that of Alessandro Moretto, his father-in-law,
which is a very lovely head of an old man, and that of the same
Alessandro's daughter, his wife. And if the other works of Lattanzio
were equal to those portraits, he would be able to compare with the
greatest men of his art. But, since his works are without number, and he
himself besides is still living, it must suffice for the present to have
made mention of those named.

[Footnote 3: Rather, of Cremona.]

By the hand of Gian Girolamo Bresciano are many works to be seen in
Venice and Milan, and in the above-mentioned house of the Mint there are
four pictures of Night and of Fire, which are very beautiful. In the
house of Tommaso da Empoli at Venice is a Nativity of Christ, a very
lovely effect of night, and there are some other similar works of
fantasy, in which he was a master. But, since he occupied himself only
with things of that kind, and executed no large works, there is nothing
more to be said of him save that he was a man of fanciful and inquiring
mind, and that what he did deserves to be much commended.

Girolamo Mosciano of Brescia, after spending his youth in Rome, has
executed many beaut