others, and well deserved, therefore, that
those Signori should afterwards allot to him the other ceiling that is
beside the above-named hall, wherein he painted in oils, in company with
Battista Farinato, a S. Mark supported in the air by some Angels, and
lower down a Venice surrounded by Faith, Hope, and Charity; which work,
although it was beautiful, was not equal in excellence to the first.
Paolo afterwards executed by himself in the Umilta, in a large oval of
the ceiling, an Assumption of Our Lady with other figures, which was a
gladsome, beautiful, and well-conceived picture.

Likewise a good painter in our own day, in that city, has been Andrea
Schiavone; I say good, because at times, for all his misfortunes, he has
produced some good work, and because he has always imitated as well as
he has been able the manners of the good masters. But, since the greater
part of his works have been pictures that are dispersed among the houses
of gentlemen, I shall speak only of some that are in public places. In
the Chapel of the family of Pellegrini, in the Church of S. Sebastiano
at Venice, he has painted a S. James with two Pilgrims. In the Church
of the Carmine, on the ceiling of the choir, he has executed an
Assumption with many Angels and Saints; and in the Chapel of the
Presentation, in the same church, he has painted the Infant Christ
presented by His Mother in the Temple, with many portraits from life,
but the best figure that is there is a woman suckling a child and
wearing a yellow garment, who is executed in a certain manner that is
used in Venice--dashed off, or rather, sketched, without being in any
respect finished. Him Giorgio Vasari caused in the year 1540 to paint on
a large canvas in oils the battle that had been fought a short time
before between Charles V and Barbarossa; and that work, which is one of
the best that Andrea Schiavone ever executed, and truly very beautiful,
is now in Florence, in the house of the heirs of the Magnificent M.
Ottaviano de' Medici, to whom it was sent as a present by Vasari.

GIOVAN FRANCESCO RUSTICI

LIFE OF GIOVAN FRANCESCO RUSTICI

SCULPTOR AND ARCHITECT OF FLORENCE

It is in every way a notable thing that all those who were of the school
in the garden of the Medici, and were favoured by the Magnificent
Lorenzo the Elder, became without exception supremely excellent; which
circumstance cannot have come from any other cause but the great, nay,
infinite jud