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thrown to the ground by Paul IV; and he, having painted one, caused all
the others to be executed by his brother Federigo, who acquitted himself
very well. Next, they painted together a frieze in fresco-colours in one
of the halls of the Palace of the Araceli. Then, a proposal being
discussed, about the same time that they were working at the Araceli, to
give to Signor Federigo Borromeo as a wife the Lady Donna Virginia, the
daughter of Duke Guidobaldo of Urbino, Taddeo was sent to take her
portrait, which he did excellently well; and before he departed from
Urbino he made all the designs for a credence, which that Duke
afterwards caused to be made in clay at Castel Durante, for sending to
King Philip of Spain. Having returned to Rome, Taddeo presented to the
Pope that portrait, which pleased him well enough; but such was the
discourtesy of that Pontiff, or of his ministers, that the poor painter
was not recompensed even for his expenses.

In the year 1560 the Pope expected in Rome the Lord Duke Cosimo and the
Lady Duchess Leonora, his consort, and proposed to lodge their
Excellencies in the apartments formerly built by Innocent VIII, which
look out upon the first court of the Palace and that of S. Pietro, and
have in front of them loggie that look out on the piazza where the
Benediction is given; and Taddeo received the charge of painting the
pictures and some friezes that were to be executed there, and of
overlaying with gold the new ceilings that had been made in place of the
old ones, which had been consumed by time. In that work, which was
certainly a great and important undertaking, Federigo, to whom his
brother Taddeo gave the charge of almost the whole, acquitted himself
very well; but he incurred a great danger, for, as he was painting
grotesques in those loggie, he fell from a staging that rested on the
main part of the scaffolding, and was near coming to an evil end.

No long time passed before Cardinal Emulio, to whom the Pope had given
the charge of the matter, commissioned many young men, to the end that
the work might be finished quickly, to paint the little palace that is
in the wood of the Belvedere, which was begun in the time of Pope Paul
IV with a most beautiful fountain and many ancient statues as ornaments,
after an architectural design by Pirro Ligorio. The young men who worked
(with great credit to themselves) in that place, were Federigo Barocci
of Urbino, a youth of great promise, and Leon