models and portraits from life, he took it with him.
And, having arrived in Rome, he had not been long there before he
contrived by means of friends to show that picture to Cardinal Triulzi,
whom it satisfied in such a manner that he not only bought it, but also
conceived a very great affection for Daniello; and a short time
afterwards he sent him to work in a village without Rome belonging to
himself, called Salone, where he had built a very large house, which he
was having adorned with fountains, stucco-work, and paintings, and in
which at that very time Gian Maria da Milano and others were decorating
certain rooms with stucco and grotesques. Arriving there, then,
Daniello, both out of emulation and from a desire to serve that lord,
from whom he could hope to win much honour and profit, painted various
things in many rooms and loggie in company with the others, and in
particular executed many grotesques, full of various little figures of
women. But the work that proved to be more beautiful than all the rest
was a story of Phaethon, executed in fresco with figures of the size of
life, and a very large River God that he painted there, which is a very
good figure; and all these works, since the above-named Cardinal went
often to see them, and took with him now one and now another of the
Cardinals, were the reason that Daniello formed a friendship and bonds
of service with many of them.

Afterwards, Perino del Vaga, who at that time was painting the Chapel of
M. Agnolo de' Massimi in the Trinita, having need of a young man who
might help him, Daniello, desiring to make proficience, and drawn by his
promises, went to work with him and assisted him to execute certain
things in the work of that chapel, which he carried to completion with
much diligence. Now, before the sack of Rome Perino had painted on the
vaulting of the Chapel of the Crocifisso in S. Marcello, as has been
related, the Creation of Adam and Eve in figures of the size of life,
and in much larger figures two Evangelists, S. John and S. Mark, which
were not yet completely finished, since the figure of S. John was
wanting from the middle upwards; and the men of that Company resolved,
when the affairs of Rome had finally become settled again, that the same
Perino should finish the work. But he, having other work to do, made the
cartoons and had it finished by Daniello, who completed the S. John that
had been left unfinished, painted all by himself the two other