e paintings in that room, but as for
the many other things that the Pope wished to have done, seeing them
delayed longer than he had expected, he lost all desire for them, so
that nothing more was done and everything was left in the condition that
is still to be seen.

In a chapel in the Church of S. Agostino Daniello painted in fresco,
with figures of the size of life, S. Helen causing the Cross to be
found, and in two niches at the sides S. Cecilia and S. Lucia, which
work was painted partly by him and partly, after his designs, by the
young men who worked with him, so that it did not prove as perfect as
his others. At this same time there was allotted to him by Signora
Lucrezia della Rovere a chapel in the Trinita, opposite to that of
Signora Elena Orsina. In that chapel, having divided it into
compartments with stucco-work, he had the vaulting painted with stories
of the Virgin, after his own cartoons, by Marco da Siena and Pellegrino
da Bologna; on one of the walls he caused the Nativity of the Virgin to
be painted by the Spaniard Bizzerra, and on the other, by Giovan Paolo
Rossetti of Volterra, his disciple, the Presentation of Jesus Christ to
Simeon; and he caused the same Giovan Paolo to execute two scenes that
are on the arches above, Gabriel bringing the Annunciation to the Virgin
and the Nativity of Christ. On the outer side, at the angles, he painted
two large figures, and on the pilasters, at the foot, two Prophets. On
the altar-front Daniello painted with his own hand the Madonna ascending
the steps of the Temple, and on the principal wall the same Virgin
ascending into Heaven, borne by many most beautiful Angels in the forms
of little boys, and the twelve Apostles below, gazing on her as she
ascends. And since the place would not hold so many figures, and he
desired to use a new invention in the work, he made it appear as if the
altar of that chapel were the sepulchre, and placed the Apostles around
it, making their feet rest on the floor of the chapel, where the altar
begins; which method of Daniello's has pleased some, but others, who
form the greater and better part, not at all. And although Daniello
toiled fourteen years over executing that work, it is not a whit better
than the first. On the last wall of the chapel that remained to be
finished, on which there was to be painted the Massacre of the
Innocents, having himself made the cartoons, he had the whole executed
by the Florentine Michele Alberti,