ters and deceives, and the second, revealing the
truth, gives instruction.

Boccaccino, then, departing from Rome, where he felt himself wounded and
torn to pieces, returned to Cremona, and there continued to practise
painting to the best of his power and knowledge. In the Duomo, over the
arches in the middle, he painted all the stories of the Madonna; and
this work is much esteemed in that city. He also made other works
throughout that city and in the neighbourhood, of which there is no need
to make mention.

He taught his art to a son of his own, called Camillo, who, applying
himself to the art with more study, strove to make amends for the
shortcomings of the boastful Boccaccino. By the hand of this Camillo are
some works in S. Gismondo, which is a mile distant from Cremona; and
these are esteemed by the people of Cremona as the best paintings that
they have. He also painted the facade of a house on their Piazza, all
the compartments of the vaulting and some panels in S. Agata, and the
facade of S. Antonio, together with other works, which made him known as
a practised master. If death had not snatched him from the world before
his time, he would have achieved a most honourable success, for he was
advancing on the good way; and even for those works that he has left to
us, he deserves to have record made of him.

But returning to Boccaccino; without having ever made any improvement in
his art, he passed from this life at the age of fifty-eight. In his time
there lived in Milan a passing good illuminator, called Girolamo, whose
works may be seen in good numbers both in that city and throughout all
Lombardy. A Milanese, likewise, living about the same time, was
Bernardino del Lupino,[5] a very delicate and pleasing painter, as may
be seen from many works by his hand that are in that city, and from a
Marriage of Our Lady at Sarone, a place twelve miles distant from Milan,
and other scenes that are in the Church of S. Maria, executed most
perfectly in fresco. He also worked with a very high finish in oils, and
he was a courteous person, and very liberal with his possessions;
wherefore he deserves all the praise that is due to any craftsman who
makes the works and ways of his daily life shine by the adornment of
courtesy no less than do his works of art on account of their
excellence.

[Illustration: THE MARRIAGE OF THE VIRGIN

(_After the fresco by =Bernardino del Lupino [Luini]=. Saronno:
Santuario della Beata Verg