ion,
because it is in the form of a Pavilion, being above the rooms on the
first floor, and thus situated above any of the others. This apartment
he decorated from the level of the floor to the roof with a great
variety of beautiful ornaments in stucco, figures in the round
distributed at equal intervals, and children, festoons, and various
kinds of animals. In the compartments on the walls are seated figures in
fresco, one in each; and such is their number, that there may be seen
among them images of all the Heathen Gods and Goddesses of the ancients.
Last of all, above the windows, is a frieze all adorned with stucco, and
very rich, but without pictures.

He then executed a vast number of works in many chambers, bathrooms, and
other apartments, both in stucco and in painting, of some of which
drawings may be seen, executed in engraving and published abroad, which
are full of grace and beauty; as are also the numberless designs that
Rosso made for salt-cellars, vases, bowls, and other things of fancy,
all of which the King afterwards caused to be executed in silver; but
these were so numerous that it would take too long to mention them all.
Let it be enough to say that he made designs for all the vessels of a
sideboard for the King, and for all the details of the trappings of
horses, triumphal masquerades, and everything else that it is possible
to imagine, showing in these such fantastic and bizarre conceptions,
that no one could do better.

In the year 1540, when the Emperor Charles V went to France under the
safeguard of King Francis, and visited Fontainebleau, having with him
not more than twelve men, Rosso executed one half of the decorations
that the King ordained in order to honour that great Emperor, and the
other half was executed by Francesco Primaticcio of Bologna. The works
that Rosso made, such as arches, colossal figures, and other things of
that kind, were, so it was said at the time, the most astounding that
had ever been made by any man up to that age. But a great part of the
rooms finished by Rosso at the aforesaid Palace of Fontainebleau were
destroyed after his death by the same Francesco Primaticcio, who has
made a new and larger structure in the same place.

Among those who worked with Rosso on the aforesaid decorations in stucco
and relief, and beloved by him beyond all the others, were the
Florentine Lorenzo Naldino, Maestro Francesco of Orleans, Maestro Simone
of Paris, Maestro Claudio, like