ITH A SATYR

(_Florence: Pitti_, 147. _Canvas_)]

Now, when the work of the Dossi was unveiled, it proved to be so
ridiculous that they left the service of the Duke in disgrace; and he
was forced to throw to the ground all that they had executed, and to
have it repainted by others after the designs of Genga.

[Illustration: MADONNA AND CHILD, WITH SS. GEORGE AND MICHAEL

(_After the painting by =Dosso Dossi=. Modena: Pinacoteca, 437_)

_Anderson_]

Finally, they painted a very beautiful panel-picture in the Duomo of
Faenza for the Chevalier, M. Giovan Battista de' Buosi, of Christ
disputing in the Temple; in which work they surpassed themselves, by
reason of the new manner that they used, and particularly in the
portraits of that Chevalier and of others. That picture was set up in
that place in the year 1536. Ultimately Dosso, having grown old, spent
his last years without working, being pensioned until the close of his
life by Duke Alfonso. And in the end Battista survived him, executing
many works by himself, and maintaining himself in a good condition.
Dosso was buried in his native city of Ferrara.

There lived in the same times the Milanese Bernazzano, a very excellent
painter of landscapes, herbage, animals, and other things of earth, air,
and water. And since, as one who knew himself to have little aptitude
for figures, he did not give much attention to them, he associated
himself with Cesare da Sesto, who painted them very well and in a
beautiful manner. It is said that Bernazzano executed in a courtyard
some very beautiful landscapes in fresco, in which he painted a
strawberry-bed full of strawberries, ripe, green, and in blossom, and so
well imitated, that some peacocks, deceived by their natural appearance,
were so persistent in picking at them as to make holes in the plaster.

FOOTNOTE:

[9] "What is it that I feel, if it is not love?"

[10] This seems to be an error for Melozzo.

GIOVANNI ANTONIO LICINIO OF PORDENONE, AND OTHER PAINTERS OF FRIULI

LIVES OF GIOVANNI ANTONIO LICINIO OF PORDENONE, AND OF OTHER PAINTERS OF
FRIULI

It would seem, as has been remarked already in the same connection, that
Nature, the kindly mother of the universe, sometimes presents the rarest
things to certain places that never had any knowledge of such gifts, and
that at times she creates in some country men so much inclined to design
and to painting, that, without masters, but only by imitating livi