ed so strongly by such
an example, after Piero's departure, to devote himself to painting, that
he acquired the name of a good and excellent master in Ferrara. Besides
this, he was held in all the greater favour in that place for having
gone to Venice and there learnt the method of painting in oil, which he
brought to his native place, for he afterwards made an infinity of
figures in that manner, which are scattered about in many churches
throughout Ferrara.

Next, having gone to Bologna, whither he was summoned by certain
Dominican friars, he painted in oil a chapel in S. Domenico; and so his
fame increased, together with his credit. After this he painted many
pictures in fresco in S. Maria del Monte, a seat of the Black Friars
without Bologna, beyond the Porta di S. Mammolo; and the whole church of
the Casa di Mezzo, on the same road, was likewise painted by his hand
with works in fresco, in which he depicted the stories of the Old
Testament.

His life was ever most praiseworthy, and he showed himself very
courteous and agreeable; which arose from his being used to live and
dwell more out of his native place than in it. It is true, indeed, that
through his being somewhat irregular in his way of living, his life did
not last long; for he left it at the age of about fifty, to go to that
life which has no end. After his death he was honoured by a friend with
the following epitaph:

GALASSUS FERRARIENSIS.

SUM TANTO STUDIO NATURAM IMITATUS ET ARTE
DUM PINGO RERUM QUAE CREAT ILLA PARENS;
HAEC UT SAEPE QUIDEM NON PICTA PUTAVERIT A ME,
A SE CREDIDERIT SED GENERATA MAGIS.

In these same times lived Cosme, also of Ferrara. Works by his hand that
are to be seen are a chapel in S. Domenico in the said city, and two
folding-doors that close the organ in the Duomo. This man was better as
a draughtsman than as a painter; indeed, from what I have been able to
gather, he does not seem to have painted much.

[Illustration: THE MADONNA ENTHRONED

(_After the tempera panel by =Cosme= [Cosimo Tura]. Berlin: Kaiser
Friedrich Museum, 86_)

_Hanfstaengl_]

FOOTNOTES:

[17] This Life appears only in Vasari's first edition.

ANTONIO AND BERNARDO ROSSELLINO

LIVES OF ANTONIO ROSSELLINO, SCULPTOR OF FLORENCE

[_ROSSELLINO DAL PROCONSOLO_]

AND BERNARDO, HIS BROTHER

It has ever been a truly laudable and virtuous thing to be modest and to
be adorned with that gentleness and those rare qu