zar in a grey habit, and S. Ivo in the habit of a priest. Then there
is the Madonna on a cloud above them all, with S. Francis and other
figures round her; but it is said that these are not by the hand of
Paolo, but by that of a friend who helped him to execute the picture;
and it is evident, indeed, that these figures are not equal in
excellence to those beneath. And in this picture is a portrait from life
of Madonna Caterina de' Sacchi, who gave the commission for the work.

Now Paolo, having set his heart on becoming great and famous, made to
this end such immoderate exertions that he fell ill and died at the
early age of thirty-one, at the very moment when he was beginning to
give proofs of what might be expected from him at a riper age. It is
certain that Paolo, if Fortune had not crossed him at the height of his
activity, would without a doubt have attained to the highest, best, and
greatest honours that could be desired by a painter. His loss,
therefore, grieved not only his friends, but all men of talent and
everyone who knew him, and all the more because he had been a young man
of excellent character, untainted by a single vice. He was buried in S.
Paolo, after making himself immortal by the beautiful works that he left
behind him.

Stefano Veronese, a very rare painter in his day, as has been related,
had a brother-german, called Giovanni Antonio, who, although he learned
to paint from that same Stefano, nevertheless did not become anything
more than a mediocre painter, as may be seen from his works, of which
there is no need to make mention. To this Giovanni Antonio was born a
son, called Jacopo, who likewise became a painter of commonplace works;
and to Jacopo were born Giovan Maria, called Falconetto, whose Life we
are about to write, and Giovanni Antonio. The latter, devoting himself
to painting, executed many works at Rovereto, a very famous township in
the Trentino, and many pictures at Verona, which are dispersed among the
houses of private citizens. He also painted many works in the valley of
the Adige, above Verona, and a panel-picture of S. Nicholas, with many
animals, at Sacco, opposite to Rovereto, with many others; after which
he finally died at Rovereto, where he had gone to live. This master was
particularly excellent in making animals and fruits, of which many very
beautiful drawings, executed in miniature, were taken to France by the
Veronese Mondella; and many of them were given by Agnolo, th