se, he painted
for M. Bartolommeo Bussotti two very beautiful figures in fresco--S.
Andrew and S. Bartholomew, the Apostles--which are one on either side of
the altar-piece, wherein is a Deposition from the Cross by the hand of
the same Jacopo del Conte, which is a very good picture and the best
work that he had ever done up to that time.

In the year 1550, Julius III having been elected Supreme Pontiff,
Francesco painted some very beautiful scenes in chiaroscuro for the arch
that was erected above the steps of S. Pietro, among the festive
preparations for the coronation. And then, in the same year, a sepulchre
with many steps and ranges of columns having been made in the Minerva by
the Company of the Sacrament, Francesco painted upon it some scenes and
figures in terretta, which were held to be very beautiful. In a chapel
of S. Lorenzo in Damaso he executed two Angels in fresco that are
holding a canopy, the design of one of which is in our book. In the
refectory of S. Salvatore del Lauro at Monte Giordano, on the principal
wall, he painted in fresco, with a great number of figures, the Marriage
of Cana in Galilee, at which Jesus Christ turned water into wine; and at
the sides some Saints, with Pope Eugenius IV, who belonged to that
Order, and other founders. Above the door of that refectory, on the
inner side, he painted a picture in oils of S. George killing the
Dragon, and he executed that whole work with much mastery, finish, and
charm of colouring. About the same time he sent to Florence, for M.
Alamanno Salviati, a large picture in which are Adam and Eve beside the
Tree of Life in the Earthly Paradise, eating the Forbidden Fruit, which
is a very beautiful work. For Signor Ranuccio, Cardinal Sant'Agnolo, of
the House of Farnese, Francesco painted with most beautiful fantasy two
walls in the hall that is in front of the great hall in the Farnese
Palace. On one wall he depicted Signor Ranuccio the Elder receiving from
Eugenius IV his baton as Captain-General of Holy Church, with some
Virtues, and on the other Pope Paul III, of the Farnese family, who is
giving the baton of the Church to Signor Pier Luigi, while there is seen
approaching from a distance the Emperor Charles V, accompanied by
Cardinal Alessandro Farnese and by other lords portrayed from life; and
on that wall, besides the things described above and many others, he
painted a Fame and a number of other figures, which are executed very
well. It is true, i