ery beautiful daughters into the richest and most noble
houses of Udine.

Pellegrino da San Daniele, who was a rival of Giovanni, as has been
related, and a man of greater excellence in painting, received at
baptism the name of Martino. But Giovanni Bellini, judging that he was
destined to become, as he afterwards did, a truly rare master of art,
changed his name from Martino to Pellegrino.[11] And even as his name
was changed, so he may be said by chance to have changed his country,
since, living by preference at San Daniele, a township ten miles distant
from Udine, and spending most of his time in that place, where he had
taken a wife, he was called ever afterwards not Martino da Udine, but
Pellegrino da San Daniele. He painted many pictures in Udine, and some
may still be seen on the doors of the old organ, on the outer side of
which is painted a sunken arch in perspective, containing a S. Peter
seated among a multitude of figures and handing a pastoral staff to S.
Ermacora the Bishop. On the inner side of the same doors, likewise, in
some niches, he painted the four Doctors of the Church in the act of
studying. For the Chapel of S. Giuseppe he executed a panel-picture in
oils, drawn and coloured with much diligence, in the middle of which is
S. Joseph standing in a beautiful attitude, with an air of dignity, and
beside him is Our Lord as a little Child, while S. John the Baptist is
below in the garb of a little shepherd-boy, gazing intently on his
Master. And since this picture is much extolled, we may believe what is
said of it--namely, that he painted it in competition with the aforesaid
Giovanni, and that he put forward every effort to make it, as it proved
to be, more beautiful than that which Giovanni painted of S. Mark, as
has been related above. Pellegrino also painted at Udine, for the house
of Messer Pre Giovanni, intendant to the illustrious Signori della
Torre, a picture of Judith from the waist upwards, with the head of
Holofernes in one hand, which is a very beautiful work. By the hand of
the same man is a large panel in oils, divided into several pictures,
which may be seen on the high-altar of the Church of S. Maria in the
town of Civitale, at a distance of eight miles from Udine; and in it are
some heads of virgins and other figures with great beauty of expression.
And in his township of San Daniele, in a chapel of S. Antonio, he
painted in fresco scenes of the Passion of Jesus Christ, and that so
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