traders from the Temple, and on the inner side the
story of the Pool of Bethesda and the Resurrection of Lazarus. In the
Church of S. Francesco, in the same city, there is a panel-picture in
oils by the hand of the same man, of S. Francis receiving the Stigmata,
with some very beautiful landscapes, and with a sunrise from which, in
the midst of some rays of the greatest splendour, there radiates the
celestial light, which pierces the hands, feet, and side of S. Francis,
who, kneeling devoutly and full of love, receives it, while his
companion lies on the ground, in foreshortening, all overcome with
amazement. Pomponio also painted in fresco for the Friars of La Vigna,
at the end of their refectory, Jesus Christ between the two disciples at
Emmaus. In the township of San Vito, his native place, twenty miles
distant from Udine, he painted in fresco the Chapel of the Madonna in
the Church of S. Maria, in so beautiful a manner, and so much to the
satisfaction of all, that he has won from the most reverend Cardinal
Maria Grimani, Patriarch of Aquileia and Lord of San Vito, the honour of
being enrolled among the nobles of that place.

I have thought it right in this Life of Pordenone to make mention of
these excellent craftsmen of Friuli, both because it appears to me that
their talents deserve it, and to the end that it may be recognized in
the account to be given later how much more excellent are those who,
after such a beginning, have lived since that day, as will be related in
the Life of Giovanni Ricamatori of Udine, to whom our age owes a very
great obligation for his works in stucco and his grotesques.

But returning to Pordenone; after the works mentioned above as having
been executed by him at Venice in the time of the most illustrious
Gritti, he died, as has been related, in the year 1540. And because he
was one of the most able men that our age has possessed, and for the
reason, above all, that his figures seem to be in the round and detached
from their walls, and almost in relief, he can be numbered among those
who have rendered assistance to art and benefit to the world.

FOOTNOTE:

[11] _I.e._, singular or rare.

GIOVANNI ANTONIO SOGLIANI

LIFE OF GIOVANNI ANTONIO SOGLIANI

PAINTER OF FLORENCE

Very often do we see in the sciences of learning and in the more liberal
of the manual arts, that those men who are melancholy are the most
assiduous in their studies and show the greatest patience